For my movie binge in October, I began planning months ahead to ensure I had plenty of new films to watch: at least one for every day of the month. As I was searching Instagram through hashtags, I found several posts containing the slasher film ‘The Hoot Owl’. Its title and artwork were incredibly intriguing, […]
Death on Scenic Drives focuses on Larissa’s storyline (played by Stephanie Ash) and is set with her staying in the house of a family that has gone on vacation with a dog accompanying her. With the family dog out with her, Larissa tries and goes ahead to get settled. All goes well at first but
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from the shofar. If you haven’t heard it before, imagine the sound of someone slumped forward in the driver’s seat, face pressed against the steering wheel, and you’ll be in the ballpark. It’s a perfectly bracing note to open this year’s most anxious comedy,
Left alone by his sick wife, a caring husband attempts to control an emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence. The father’s emotional assistant as this is, has gained the hold which is possessed by the entire family; the compassion of her owner. And she wouldn’t think twice before exterminating every member of the family for that. According
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King (Channing Tatum), a tech billionaire, via a television interview where he apologizes for an undisclosed offense. However, the unsaid transgression is no mystery. The setting an influential, rich white guy in a confessional interview lamenting his behavior and promising to do better is
All right, smile and check your spine, this movie is strange yet fun. Even as one settles into this anthology, the movie brings many old-school chills that set the fun, creepy atmosphere. This is one of those movies that captures the essence of many great horror movies but adds interesting storylines and other technical goodies
John Woo’s “The Killer” was a true gamechanger, at least for this critic. The one-two punch of Woo’s 1989 action masterpiece with his equally magnificent “Hard Boiled” changed the way I looked at the genre in my teens, and truly inspired hundreds of imitators. For anyone in my age range who can remember watching “The
Joshua Nelson’s horror/thriller Aware of the Wolf takes the self-help industry in an entirely new and horrid direction. A life coach and motivational speaker known only as Terry seems to develop his shy and socially anxious clients into an assertive version of themselves. Of course, Terry’s methods raise eyebrows, as his clients’ self-assertion training involves
Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy anytime soon. You know, that “Superbad” formula obliquely indebted to much darker single-night films about hapless grown-ups, like “After Hours.” And in a way, cinema aimed towards young eyeballs is all the richer for it. Without that perpetual effort, we would have never
The reader of Lost on a Mountain In Maine is not required to know any details of Donn Fender’s biography in order to understand the text. With as little perceptive imagination as in the titles Death of a Salesman or the Assassination of Trotsky which are almost just antics “You probably do not expect too
