Is MURDER DEATH KOREATOWN great found footage horror or exploitative nonsense?
MURDER DEATH KOREATOWN is a chilling new found footage horror film. Or is it a disgusting exploitation film? Outsider art? It’s hard to say.
Category: Film
SPIRAL is a moving thriller about outsiders
Kurtis David Harder’s SPIRAL is a memorable and chilling low-budget horror movie with a star-making turn from Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman.
THE EIGHT HUNDRED can’t escape the horrors of war movie cliches
China’s World War 2-era epic THE EIGHT HUNDRED was a massive hit in its homeland. Can that success translate to American audiences?
TENET, or trying to solve a math problem in a car crash
The latest blockbuster effort from Christopher Nolan falls a bit short
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD delivers, but may not live up to my great expectations
The Personal History of David Copperfield has been part of a parade of ‘oh-wow-are-they-making-a-movie-of-that-again?’ literary classic film adaptations to roll through the theaters (or, perhaps, our at-home-theaters) in the last 12 months.
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS – a masterpiece of miserabalism
The latest effort from Charlie Kaufman is a perfect counterpoint for Synecdoche, New York
PENINSULA makes for a massively disappointing Train to Busan sequel
The hotly anticipated sequel to the international zombie smash falls short on just about every metric
Class Solidarity, KNIVES OUT, and PARASITE
PARASITE and KNIVES OUT are two of 2019’s finest films. Together, they have something interesting to say about class solidarity.
RELIC combines horror with heartache
Metaphorical psychological horror directorial debuts from Australian female filmmakers – do we have a future possible hyper-niche listing for viewers scrolling Netflix?
THE OLD GUARD would have made a better TV show than movie
The Old Guard had a lot of potential to be something special as a longer-form, character-based form of storytelling, with an intriguing core concept and stellar cast.
Wrestling with HAMILTON in 2020
In celebration of Hamilton dropping on Disney+ today, I revisit it and wrestle with the show’s politics and legacy five incredibly long years later.
Kore-eda lives out his French filmmaking dreams in THE TRUTH
Hirokazu Kore-eda follows up his Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters with a tribute to one of the icons of international cinema.
YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT feels like a parody – but isn’t
Could this be my House of Leaves ripoff in film format, at last?
Kickstart? Comeback? Either way – THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND is worth rooting for
Studio comedies like The King of Staten Island are becoming an endangered species these days. It’s even harder to find one that actually has heart.
SHIRLEY, recalculating the biopic
This fictionalized tale of the Haunting of Hill House author sparks new life in a moribund genre