Out in Theaters: INTERSTELLAR
With Interstellar, Nolan rages against the dying of the light, but like a theater minor without the proper know-how, he rages just a little too hard.
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Weekly Review 61: HORNS, ABCS, BEGIN, CANNIBAL, SNOW
Halloween is upon us (and by the time you’re reading this, will have already passed) so the time for horror is taking its spot in the rear view. Sayonara! Nevertheless, I popped on a slew of horrors at home, including a double Nosferatu showing; both the 1922 original and the “what if this was how...
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Out in Theaters: NIGHTCRAWLER
A nightcrawler, not to be confused with the blue Russian teleport from the X-Men comics, is a bottom feeder. A succubus. A drive by job with a camera. They find…
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Weekly Review 60: BLIZZARD, STRETCH
Taking a break from the horror to settle into some 2014 On Demand fare, I looked to make up some ground with a couple new limited release arrivals. Seeing that I did a lot of what is colloquially known as raging this weekend, I didn’t quite get as many down as I had anticipated but...
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Out in Theaters: DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
Dear White People is an important film. Simien deserves credit for taking this challenge head-on. Maybe his movie wasn’t a good one, but it asked the right questions and called for…
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Out in Theaters: THE HEART MACHINE
Since the inception of apps literally designed to track down horny people in the closest possible vicinity, the world of relationships increasingly invokes a compartmentalization of love and sex. To…
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Out in Theaters: OUIJA
When all is said and done, Ouija will make over five times its budget on opening weekend and it will see a sequel. That fact alone is the true horror.…
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Out in Theaters: LAGGIES
From a purely narcissistic angle, I appreciated the drizzly Seattle setting, which opened the doors to some of the finer establishments in the Emerald City, establishments that I have otherwise…
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Out in Theaters: BIRDMAN
Steeped in an exacting degree of irreverent relevance, he's able to pull off the rare feat of raising existential questions in the same scene that he blows up a cityscape.…
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Out in Theaters: JOHN WICK
John Wick eventually admits that it is in fact just the straight-forward actioner you've hoped it would transcend - with an ending you could forecast from 30 minutes in -…