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, […]

Newly released, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek is like Narc meets Reservoir Dogs with the mood and pacing of Alien. It’s a lean and mean, down and dirty mystery/thriller that languidly unfolds with increasing (and unrelenting) suspense, then erupts with a dizzying climax that is as concerned with connecting its pieces into a thematic hole […]

Assassination Nation Something of a mixture of Heathers and Spring Breakers, this boldly in-your-face satire is about a group of girls (Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, and Hari Nef) who are brutally slut shamed by their community after their (and everyone else’s) dirty little secrets are exposed by an online hacker. Assassination Nation is a […]

Replicas is one of many recent entries in the science fiction genre that attempts to examine the ethics behind cloning, artificial intelligence, and blind ambition towards scientific progress in general. Not that there’s anything wrong with that–it’s all fascinating subject matter and they are increasingly relevant topics. If it has nothing else going for it, […]