Spider Baby is a 1967 released dark comedy horror film, written and directed by Jack Hill (Blood Bath). It was produced by Gil Lasky and Paul Monka. As was the …
Nick Stahl plays a skilled cook who, in need of some quick cash, agrees to help prepare an ultra-exclusive meal in Nicholas Tomnay’s sharp, surprising film.
Antoine Chevrollier's debut feature film navigates the emotional landscape of teenage life, exploring themes of masculinity, parenthood, identity, and the societal pressures of a small-town upbringing.
It’s to Viggo Mortensen’s credit that The Dead Don’t Hurt, only his second feature film as director, doesn’t feel like a vanity project. There are none of the narrative excesses that often come when an actor makes the shift to filmmaking …
Without much expectation – because Revenge, director Coralie Fargeat's debut film, wasn’t as thrilling to me as to most genre cinema specialists – I went to a night screening of The Substance at the Cannes International Film Festival. The…
For the most part, we see Benedict Cumberbatch as a hero in some form or fashion. Sure, he was Kahn in Star Trek Into Darkness (we don’t talk about that movie) or Smaug in The Hobbit films, but often he’s on the side of angels. Whether…
“They don’t make ‘em like this anymore,” we wistfully say these days when praising skillful mainstream movies, ones that remind us of a past when Hollywood used to stir us more regularly through moving original films. There is truth in…
Last year’s The Exorcist Believer from David Gordon Green was supposed to be the beginning of a new Exorcist trilogy. Reviews were not good and it faired poorly at the box office. Green left the proposed sequels and they were shelved. Now…
Dreams play a pivotal role in “The Village Next to Paradise.” One of the three main characters in writer-director Mo Harawe’s poignant debut, a pre-teen boy named Cigaal (Ahmed Mohamud Saleban), has a compulsion to share his dreams with…
One imagines Viggo Mortensen is a big fan of Clint Eastwood’s 1992 “Unforgiven,” given how Mortensen’s “The Dead Don’t Hurt” echoes the basic framework of that classic Western, i.e., a widower and father living on the outskirts of town who…
Reuniting the stars of Black Narcissus, this movie about a back-room boffin attached to a bomb disposal unit finds the film-makers pushing gloriously against genre conventions
A bereaved child moves to Jerusalem where she encounters a ghostly Palestinian girl no one else can see in this sensitive film about intergenerational trauma
Everybody Dies by the End is a 2022 American comedy horror mockumentary film which follows a dictatorial director as he makes his final film – an all-practical effects masterpiece… with …
Ezra isn’t your average kid, and Ezraisn’t your average movie to throw on when you need a good cry. The Tony Goldwyn-directed film, which follows a neurodivergent 11-year-old who gets caught in the middle over and over as his parents spar…
Are you already complaining about the summer movies coming to your nearby cineplex? Do you sense they are bland, formulaic and based on licensed IP that are marketed to people who watch the same old same old? If you want a film that’s a…