31 Days of Horror – ‘Eden Lake’ (2008)
Buckle in. Really. This critic has absorbed some of the most intenses and gruesome horror films of the past 20+ years and lived to tell […]
Month: October 2023
‘The Morning Show’ Goes All-in on Abortion, Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’
The MeToo revolution gave “The Morning Show” its purpose. The Apple TV+ drama starring Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell and Jennifer Aniston as news anchors caught […]
31 Days of Horror – ‘The Battery’ (2012)
The zombie genre should be played out by now. Director George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” gave way to dozens of undead shockers, […]
Free to Choose Mini-Doc Captures Chilling Attacks on Comedy
“Lenny Bruce would be impossible today.” So says Svetlana Mintcheva, the director of programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship. Mintcheva shares that observation in […]
Why ‘Child’s Play’ Remains the Creepiest Chucky Close-up
Tom Holland’s “Child’s Play” (1988) starts like a genuinely bad movie, the kind of cop movie you’ve seen dozens of times, then becomes something special. […]
31 Days of Horror – ‘Train to Busan’ (2016)
South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho gave us both the best zombie movie of the past 20 years and the most disappointing sequel in recent memory. […]
‘Muzzle’ Gives K9 Cops Their Due
We don’t deserve dogs. The main character in “Muzzle” knows that better than anyone. Aaron Eckhart’s broken cop will do anything to avenge his canine […]
‘Skinamarink’ – 2023’s Answer to ‘The Blair Witch Project’
Kyle Edward Ball’s “Skinamarink” is the biggest horror movie Rorschach test since “The Blair Witch Project” (1999), another movie that made half the audience shake […]
31 Days of Horror – ‘Rogue’ (2007)
Director Greg Mclean may never escape the shadow of Mick Taylor. He’s the Aussie killing machine at the heart of Mclean’s “Wolf Creek” franchise, memorably […]
Are Cops Allowed to Be the Good Guys Yet?
I used to run from the cops. In my youth, the boys in blue weren’t exactly my BFFs, but up on the silver screen, I […]