In Search Of Tomorrow
To the uninitiated or would-be cinephile there’s possibly something indispensable about David A. Weiner’s epic surveys of movies in the eighties. Weiner’s most recent addition to his growing catalogue is… Read more »
Tag: 2020s
Jurassic World Dominion
Supposedly the franchise that began with the groundbreaking cultural touchstone Jurassic Park (1993) has reached its conclusion with Jurassic World Dominion (2022). In this final chapter the leads of the… Read more »
Summer Days, Summer Nights
Edward Burns’ film Summer Days, Summer Nights (2021) follows the tradition of Dazed & Confused (1993), American Graffiti (1973), The Last Days Of Disco (1998), and Adventureland (2009). Burns’ film… Read more »
Willy’s Wonderland
Willy’s Wonderland (2021) is really a film for people of a certain age. Willy’s Wonderland plays with the terror of what once was Chuck E. Cheese. This chain of restaurants… Read more »
Morbius
I really like Marvel Comics’ old horror magazine Vampire Tales (published from 1973 to 1975), especially Roy Thomas and John Romita Sr.’s Satana The Devil’s Daughter stories. Besides featuring comic… Read more »
The Northman
With his film The Northman (2022), filmmaker Robert Eggers returns to the folkloric roots of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Eggers revels in the physical hardships and bloody violence of the ninth… Read more »
Siberia
With Siberia (2020) renegade auteur Abel Ferrara returns too familiar ground. The director continues to obsess over the means by which regret and guilt can fracture the human spirit. Clint… Read more »
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 »
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 »
The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
The Joe Berlinger series Conversations With A Killer on Netflix has had an immeasurable impact on the true crime documentary genre. Berlinger’s second series, The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022),… Read more »
