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, […]

2018 saw a steady stream of original, daring, and adult-oriented movies released onto the marketplace. Many of its most touted releases turned out to be relative disappointments and many of its masterpieces were quiet surprises with short theatrical runs or straight-to-online-streaming releases—but, hey, what else is new these days?    Time always tells what the masterworks […]

Clocking in at just eleven minutes, Dylan is the kind of short film about which the less is said, the better. The viewer’s enjoyment of the film hinges upon director Cory Miller’s carefully calculated and skillful unraveling of costar Rob Belushi’s cleverly dark and shocking screenplay. Simply put, a lot happens in Dylan’s miniature runtime, […]

Screenwriter/director James Gunn’s first and, to date, only novel should have had the effect of a modern-day The Catcher in the Rye for twentysomethings at the beginning of the 21st century. It’s that poetically and politically incorrect, that unflinchingly honest, and that painfully and brutally funny. It’s also that good. Though the book has been […]