In Theaters and Digital

What wickedness we do in utero! Burning with an intensity that speaks volumes, the opening ten or so minutes of Let Her Out might just very well be one of my favorite cinematic experiences this season.  Writer/Director Cody Calahan and ...

If the Coen Brothers don’t follow through with a script of their own, there’s probably a good reason. That’s the take-away after fighting through the confusion and frustration of what just happened in Suburbicon ...

Social media and serial killers don’t necessarily go hand in hand.  They will soon enough.  Trust in that nonsense.  Facebook “factoids” will be the death of us all.  With a satirical edge to its tweets and a gleeful embracing of some severe wickedness, Tragedy Girls, a new horror ...

Awful.  Just awful.  And, truly, it didn’t need to be this way.  Don’t Sleep is, at its core, an intelligent idea for a new horror story.  I won’t and can’t fault writer/director Rick Bieber for being somewhat creative there.  A boy facing the darker aspects of his soul all too soon  ...

In one of the better scenes of Leatherface, a superfluous prequel to Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a young couple comes across what appears to be some sort of rotting animal along a lonely stretch of road.  The girl (Lorina Kamburova) gets out of the truck ...

The woman in the center of the camera’s frame has just made a decision.  She is going to return the money she stole.  Satisfied, she picots away from the desk and walks into the bathroom.  It is a clean, white place.  The bathrooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s movies are  ...

“Tradition.  Without it, we are nothing,” suggests Sheriff Burnside (Gary Sturm) as he stands in front of his ragged townsfolk, delivering words he’s not had to change in over a decade.   And they nod with approval.  A man is nothing without deed to back up his words and ...

As stylish and dirty as it is devilishly witty, the biting satire American Made takes an unbelievably insane event, mixes in equal parts deft direction and imaginative storytelling – with a healthy dose of Tom Cruise at his best – to make one of the season’s most surprisingly ...

With the women’s lib movement, the Roe v. Wade ruling, the passage of Title IX, and Congressional ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment roiling in the background of 1973, a different event managed to step forward and garner the bulk of the American public’s (and world’s) attention ...

The white wedding dress. The fake eyelashes. The suffocating mother. The orchestra. And the guests.  All those guests and they are waiting – expecting even – a beautiful, flower-lined ceremony featuring a union between a bride and a groom.  But that’s not going to happen.  Even ...