Lorcan Finnegan’s last feature,Vivarium, was a mind bending statement on suburbia. Nocebo, Finnegan’s latest feature, couldn’t be more different from Vivarium or Without Name, his …
Kurt Wimmer’s Children of the Corn (2023) bears little resemblance to 1984’s original or to Stephen King’s story. To be fair, the SyFy Channel’s 2009 version bore little similariti…
As an experimental art house movie, Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men can be considered a success. There’s no linear narrative in the movie. Jenkin has chosen to scatter any sense of a story …
Nepo-baby is the word of the moment. If you don’t know the meaning of nepo-baby it’s a pretty basic concept. In short, it’s when a child of a famous actor gets work in Hollywood ba…
Neil LaBute’s debut feature film In the Company of Men (1997) hit independent cinema like a sledgehammer. In the Company of Men is a portrait of male toxicity. It’s about two busin…
Gatlopp: Hell of a Game
Board games as a portal to Hell or a conduit for something bad to manifest in the world isn’t a new concept. What’s a ouija board but a board game? How man…
It would not break my heart if it was ruled by some cinema governing body that remakes, whether a classic movie or a movie no one had ever heard of, were outlawed. Too bad this wil…
Netflix’s new Resident Evil series seems a million miles away from the series of games it shares a name with and only a fleeting similarity with the Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evi…
Certain movies and genres have aspects about them that separate them from the rest of the pack. Italian and giallo horror movies, one is not necessarily the other, seem to separate…
Believe it or not movies were released in 2021. A lot of them never made it to your local theater because independent features have rarely played well at the big chain theater cent…