There is anxiety in the air as the world continues to spiral into conflict, fanaticism and superstition. Whenever that happens, horror stories are some of the best cultural vehicles to capture the times.
The best gangster stories tend to be operatic. Their appeal lies in scale combined with classic underdog stories fueled by everyone’s material fantasies. Easy money and crushing those who did you wrong, these…
Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” is a merciless experience aimed at our current ageist dystopia. We are a species in a desperate race against our biological clocks, injecting or trying a collection of…
Animation can sometimes be the saving grace of an overstretched franchise. After 17 years of live action movies and spinoffs, not to mention previous decades of cartoons and toys, it would be understandable…
Marvel has been slowing down to a trickle in its rather cautious delivery of new material. “Agatha All Along” arrives with a bit of extra hype since it stands alone without the…
In the United States we don’t really like our horror films to get too complicated. Fun is the name of the game and anything beyond that is too unnerving, with a few exceptions.
