Mia Goth Has the ‘X’-Factor in Devilish Prequel ‘PEARL’

September 14, 2022 by Matt Oakes Posted in Most Popular, Out in Theaters Tagged Alistair Sewell, David Corenswet, Mia Goth, Pearl, Tandi Wright, Ti West 2 Comments

X Marks The Spot

Ladies and gentlemen, Mia Goth! In Ti West’s remarkably entertaining prequel to X (his other 2022 slasher), Goth plays a woman desperate to be a star but doomed never to be one. The irony is that Pearl should be the movie that propels Goth herself to proper stardom. She’s simply sensational. Featuring as the titular character, Goth steps back into the shoes of a sex-starved, corn-fed, farm-raised vixen with a predilection for murder by pitchfork. This time, West explores her youth, focusing on how her environs and lovelorn family dynamic transform her into the villain we later meet in X. Read More

Out in Theaters: ‘IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE’

October 18, 2016 by Matt Oakes Posted in Out in Theaters Tagged Burn Gorman, Ethan Hawke, In a Valley of Violence, James Ransone, John Travolta, Karen Gillian, Out in Theaters, Reviews, Taissa Farmiga, Ti West Leave a comment

If you had told me that John Travolta would comeback from his recent Academy Award persona butchery (2014’s “Adele Dazeem”, 2015’s repulsively awkward Scar-Jo sneak-a-kiss) by playing a sand-blasted moral compass in a Ti West Western (a Western, it must be noted, that is of the genre through and through, absent of the horror flair that has, up to this point, characterized the filmmaker’s oeuvre), I woulda spit my cud. But Travolta is as present for In a Valley of Violence as it is a corn-fed, all-American, organically certified Western. Consider my head scratched. Read More