Tarantino has certainly afforded us some classic auteur fair over the years, disparate in tone, in subject and in setting, but he always delivers something uniquely him and uniquely memorable. Of all his classics, Kill Bill is the one I frequently revisit. His batshit crazy modernist ronin tale of The Bride (Uma Thurman)   ...

It is a sequel which is greater than the original!  Let the MONSTER MAYHEM resume! It’s a damn wonder that the Bride of Frankenstein ever came to see the light of day.  Back in the early part of the 1930s, the Hays Code was in full effect, censoring whatever they could for content and for blasphemy ...

Once again, we go back to the Borley Rectory this season of treason among the falling leaves.  And that’s not a bad thing either.  While there are a lot of crazy things happening in Borley Rectory: The Awakening, the pacing is designed to keep everyone on the edge of their   ...

Never has the phrase “truth is stranger than fiction” had more relevance than it does in Roofman, director Derek Cianfrance’s entertaining little crime comedy-drama. The film stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey “Roofman” Manchester, a charming, blue-collar, ex-military whose   ...

All aboard for Train Dreams! Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, this moving portrait of logger and railroad worker Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) captures the quiet beauty and heartbreak of a life shaped by a rapidly changing America  ...

Giddy up, Gorehounds! The tried and true western genre just got a major upgrade thanks to Forgive Us All, a post-apocalyptic take on a western frontier sprinkled with . . . wait for it . . . ZOMBIES!.  And this world of zombified cannibals works to deliver a drama-centrific take   ...

“Doctors say there’s still a chance.  Come home.” Shed is a film in which the humidity and the heat seen on the screen is actually felt by its audience.  The thriller never dips in quality either, opening with a curious scene involving a radio newscast, an escaped convict, and a mysterious  ...

Rick Rosenthal's Halloween II isn’t the best release in the series but, with its workmanlike earnestness, the minor dip in glossy quality isn’t a complete undoing.  It holds up better than most slasher sequels.  Besides, measuring the original release both in reception and its critical analysis, the drop  ...