Children Of Sin
Despite budgetary constraints, Christopher Wesley Moore’s Children Of Sin (2022) successfully evokes the milieu of an eighties slasher while also managing to be a scathing commentary on conversion therapy and… Read more »
Silver Bullet
In fourth grade I took Stephen King’s Cycle Of The Werewolf out from my public library. It was Halloween season and my best friend and I thrilled to Bernie Wrightson’s… Read more »
The Catch
During World War II, an American G.I. is forced to parachute and lands outside of a remote Japanese village. Very quickly the soldier is captured by the villagers and imprisoned…. Read more »
More American Graffiti
It was pretty anomalous that American Graffiti (1973) became a classic American film when one considers that the film, despite its press, has three authors in the form of director… Read more »
Frog Dreaming
In many ways Frog Dreaming (1986) is the Australian response to The Goonies (1985). Screenwriter and producer Everett De Roche adds one crucial element to Frog Dreaming that makes it… Read more »
Pensione paura
In a rural Italian village at the height of WWII, Rosa (Leonora Fani) and her mother Marta (Lidia Biondi) run a hotel. Rosa eagerly awaits her father’s return from the… Read more »
High Life
In High Life (2018) filmmaker Claire Denis uses the science fiction genre to deal with human themes in the abstract. As a space ship of convicts hurdles towards a black… Read more »
SubUrbia
It would be easy to mistake SubUrbia (1996) for another Dazed And Confused (1993). Superficially, the plot of SubUrbia is about a group of recent high school graduates who begin… Read more »
Hellbound Train
Marginalized and oppressed by society, Black American filmmakers made their films on the fringe for decades. Black filmmakers James and Eloyce Gist made films to augment their sermons as part… Read more »
Dr. Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (2022) is the latest and probably the best of Disney’s MCU related projects. But it’s also a deeply flawed film. Sam Raimi, a… Read more »
