Terry Gilliam has lost years of his life and large portions of his already questionable sanity to bring The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to the screen. The 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha detailed his first attempt at producing the film in 2000 before it fell apart for one excruciating reason after another. The […]

Under the Silver Lake is the kind of film that warrants repeat viewings. While making complete sense of this challenging film may never happen, seeing it more than once can, at least, help clarify what the hell it actually is. Writer/director David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to It Follows is a completely unexpected U-turn in his […]

You’ve probably heard that Serenity has an insane plot twist, but that doesn’t even begin to cover it. For the film’s first half, audiences are led to believe that it is a modern-day tropical noir thriller along the lines of Body Heat. As it unravels, however, it morphs into a complete mind-meddle that would have […]

The Beach Bum Harmony Korine’s follow-up to 2013’s Spring Breakers is another liquidly non-linear ode to hedonism. Though this film doesn’t exhibit the same biting satire, artistic aggression, or weighted, ethereal beauty as his previous masterwork, it’s still one of the most original and audacious films to make it to mainstream theaters in recent years. […]

Co-composer/writer/director S. Craig Zahler’s third film is the latest addition to his recent winning streak—one that seemed to come out of nowhere in 2015 with the horror western Bone Tomahawk and continued in 2017 with the prison thriller Brawl in Cell Block 99. Slow burning, character driven, and emotionally brutal with shocking bursts of supreme […]

Robert Rodriguez has had some great and successful creative partnerships throughout his career: Quentin Tarantino on Grindhouse and From Dusk Till Dawn, Frank Miller on Sin City, Ethan Maniquison on Machete. It seemed to be a sure thing that his latest team-up with James Cameron would be just as saliva inducing and worthy of a […]

Aside from the small fraction of the country that shelled out a collective $168,575 for the second-worst wide-release opening weekend in U.S. history, nobody saw London Fields when it came to theaters in October of 2018. Critics trashed it and the public quickly wrote it off as a failed vanity project for actors Billy Bob […]

It’s easy to hate the Academy Awards. It’s a shallow, vapid, and bloated showcase of rich and beautiful people congratulating themselves for jobs well done. It’s all about popularity, people-pleasing, and political correctness—not about rewarding the films that have broken the most ground artistically. It’s all about pretending to celebrate the accomplishments of a creative […]

Everyone’s favorite actor to love or hate recently announced that he might be retiring in the next few years to focus on directing. The announcement came towards the beginning of 2018—one of the best years Nicolas Cage’s career has seen in a long time. Though it will be nothing short of tragic to see him […]

3 From Hell Rob Zombie’s return to the Firefly clan contains flashes of the depraved inspiration that made the previous films in this trilogy–House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects–such grisly and renowned cult classics. Such flashes are disappointingly (and quite sadly) far and few between, however. In spite of a promising first act, […]