We’ve spent a lot of this year discussing the sophomore features directors who made quite a splash with their horror debuts. It’s something that you wouldn’t think we’d be discussing this much, but weirdly I can think of three movies that fit that specific dynamic. Jordan Peele […]
Weirdly, while for the majority of my life I haven’t been a big fan of horror movies, I’ve almost always been into horror stories. Not shockingly, I’ve been a big Stephen King fan for most of my life, but even before that I tended to be into […]
A few years ago I decided to do something very stupid. Which, certainly doesn’t narrow down the various idiotic things I do, often in support of this site. But, in 2017 while facing a weekend with no movie in theaters that I really wanted to see, I […]
As we’ve discussed, it’s been pretty difficult to trust the big budget blockbusters this summer, resulting in a very indie-driven year for me. We’ve had a few truly great spectacles, but by and large the movies that have been keeping me captivated in the theaters and not […]
After spending a week discussing some smaller movies that would normally slip through the cracks of a summer focused on big boisterous blockbusters, we get to transition today to one of the true outliers of modern Hollywood. A director who makes movies that should be incredibly niche, […]
Earlier this week I talked about the tremendously fun The Art of Self-Defense, and specifically discussed a desire to avoid some of the more soulless big budget fare that’s being put out this summer in order to seek out some weirder mid-tier that are rapidly going the way of […]
As a rule, I generally try to go check out every major movie. Partly because I’m an obsessive, partly because I just love movies, and partly because I feel like I owe it to the site to talk about whatever big thing is out. And yet, I […]
2019 has been a shockingly weak year for movies. While doing my Cinematic Century project here I’ve really learned how Hollywood can have very strange ebbs and flows where one year will be an extravaganza of amazing and seminal films, while the next year will be almost […]
Last year a movie came out that seemed to light the sort of film world that I follow on fire. Ari Aster’s Hereditary hit like a bomb, instantly becoming all anyone seemed willing to talk about, being hailed as one of the most inventive and frightening horror films in recent […]
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