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.
Reaching 40 seems so distant when you’re merely 18. Then you arrive at certain milestones where the cliché “time flies” becomes cruelly true and obvious. Millennial filmmakers have been particularly obsessed with these…
Like few directors, Tim Burton has established a style readily identified as his own. He operates like German expressionism, classic horror, goth drab and Halloween goofiness all rolled into one. Because he is…
A painful moment of transition or crisis can have quite the revelatory impact on a family. “His Three Daughters” is a simple, immersive drama about a group of sisters dealing with their…
Brandy Norwood, best known for her music career and starring in the sitcom “Moesha,” shows off her more serious side in A24’s “The Front Room,” a psychological horror flick with an unlikely…
In space, no one can hear you talk to yourself, except the commanding officer. In space-travel films, these level-headed ship captains are the most trustworthy. Director Mikael Håfström’s “Slingshot” breaks the chain…
Everyone is supposed to be afraid of the machines. We just sense that AI is threatening to take over jobs and our very perception of reality. It is a no brainer that new…
Here, in the land of the free and home of the homeless brave, we like to scoff at enemy or totalitarian states for the way they promote their strongmen. Vladimir Putin’s public stunts…