Villains, starring Maika Monroe and Bill Skarsgård, kicks off with a strong, intriguing setup: a young couple on the run from the law, low on gas and luck, break into a seemingly quiet suburban home hoping to steal a getaway car—only to discover a little girl chained in the basement. It’s a great premise, the … Read More “Villains (2019) – A Promising Premise That Can’t Stick the Landing” »
Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin crawls in like a bum with a busted shoe. Quiet. Dirty. Hiding something. We meet Dwight—played by Macon Blair—a guy with dead eyes and a beard full of rust, pissing in the wind, sleeping in old cars, scrubbing himself in gas station sinks. A ghost dragging his bones across backroads and … Read More “Blue Ruin — a Bottle of Vengeance That Fizzles Out” »
yeah, I know — people say stuff like“worst thing I’ve ever seen” all the time.hyperbole. melodrama.but this?this piece of shit actually earns it. three and a half hours.not a movie — a jail sentence. we follow this sad-eyed Hungarian-Jewish architect, László Tóth,a Holocaust survivor with the emotional range of a bowl of cold turds.adrien brody … Read More “The Brutalist – The Worst Movie Ever?” »
Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun is one of those rare films that quietly sneaks past your defenses. You don’t watch it so much as absorb it — or maybe more accurately, it absorbs you. It’s a cinematic memory, flickering and elusive, filled with half-formed thoughts and buried feelings that feel more like recollections than storytelling. On the … Read More “Aftersun (2022) — A Film of Ghosts, Memory, and the Things Left Unsaid” »
“Heretic” doesn’t give you the usual horror movie bullshit . This one crawls under your skin and lights a cigarette. It’s a slow dance of dread, like two acts of a stage play soaked in blueberry pie and Bible verses. Two fresh-faced Mormon girls, all sunshine and scripture, go knocking on the wrong damn door. … Read More “Heretic (2024) – Trading jump scares for psychological dread” »
Robert Altman’s Images (1972) is what happens when a director with too much talent and too much ego decides he wants to make an art film about a woman losing her mind but forgets that the audience has to give a damn. It’s got all the tricks—fractured reality, eerie landscapes, jump-cut hallucinations—but it drags its … Read More “Images (1972) Starring Susannah York, Directed by Robert Altman” »
M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap is a refreshing entry in his career and I’ve enjoyed most of his movies. This time around, he forgoes the twists that have become his trademark and instead delivers a taut, suspenseful thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Josh Hartnett stars as Cooper, … Read More “Trap – M.Night Syamalan’s Story Without A Twist” »
