The Quarantine Playlist: Amistad
When you found your own film studio, you can do whatever the hell you want. It’s common knowledge. That’s not quite what Steven Spielberg did after co-founding Dreamworks, but it’s….
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The Quarantine Playlist: The American Friend
It’s all about escape, and identity, in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game. Wenders’ film is hallucinatory and dreamlike where Highsmith’s prose is….
The Quarantine Playlist: Alien: Resurrection
If there didn’t exist a venerable franchise based around the word Alien, would anyone have gone to see a movie called Alien: Resurrection? It’s an objectively stupid, terrible title, better….
The Quarantine Playlist: Alien 3
What an impossible task first-time director David Fincher had in front of him: make a (mostly unnecessary) follow-up film to Alien and Aliens, two films that represent the apex of….
The Quarantine Playlist: The Abyss
I own more movies than I do brain cells, by which I mean I have a bad habit of buying films I’ve never seen, based solely on recommendations. Sometimes this….
A Hidden Life – Review
When Austria was annexed Germany in 1938, by most accounts rule by their sinister new overlords were incredibly popular. Infamously, a referendum that year to accept Hitler as national leader….
Cats is a horny, harrowing descent into madness
There are dark vistas of this universe, forbidden plains where even the gods fear to tread. The sights…oh, reader, the sights are obscene, some beautiful, all beyond comprehension. The foul….
31 Days of Fright: Saw
“I want to play a game.” It’s hard to think of a horror film with a more misbegotten legacy than that of Saw. It somewhat unfairly is looked upon as….
31 Days of Fright: The People Under the Stairs
“Can’t get out. No one ever has.” The People Under the Stairs would be a largely forgettable slasher for any number of reasons. It’s certainly not up to snuff with….
31 Days of Fright: Honeymoon
“Something bad happened to me in the woods.” How well do we know each other? Any of us? How well can one human fully understand another, no matter how deep….
31 Days of Fright: The Amityville Horror
“Houses don’t have memories.” On November 13, 1974, Ronald Defeo Jr. killed his entire family – four siblings and both parents – with a shotgun. A year later, the Lutz….
31 Days of Fright: The Strangers: Prey at Night
“Why are they doing this to us?” I was followed once. I was taking a nighttime walk right on the border of Burbank and North Hollywood, CA, not going anywhere….