Rising Star Emma Laird Is the Fire Under This Slow-Burn Psychological Drama
Alex Buronova's narrative debut, Satisfaction, is a pretty bold swing, tackling thorny subject matter head-on, but in a voice that feels much more subdued. It's a vulnerable and tight film with a lot on its mind, but delivers its message…
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Alain Guiraudie’s Latest Exploration of Sex and Death Is an Unmissable Thriller
Foundational psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud argued that human psychology was driven by two instincts. The life instinct, Eros, fuels sex, reproduction, and pro-social behavior, while the death instinct, Thanatos, produces aggression, self-harm, and other destructive tendencies. While their foundational status is…
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An Audacious Feat of Art Just Feet From the Food Court
Artists have done some crazy things over the years. From Tracey Emin's disheveled bedroom setup to Shia LaBeouf's 'I Am Not Famous Anymore' routine, it is really fascinating to see what stimulates the artistic mind, and how the ideas they…
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Hood Witch Review
Hood Witch desperately wants to be original, and I can’t say that it always fails in that effort. Through ample dramatic zoom-ins and the occasional artsy shot (often undermined by the melodramatic, parody-esque lighting), the Saïd Belktibia-directed film is trying…
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Shudder Horror Comedy Is Messy, Bloody Fun
Making a name for himself by bashing people's faces with a bat wrapped in barbed wire on the screen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan steps back onto this bloody path. But in this horror comedy, he spends more time behind the camera.…
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Beck’s Running Out of Options, and Reacher’s Running Out of Patience
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Reacher Season 3 Episode 7. Season 3 of Reacher has one week to go, tragically, and the only thing more inevitable than Reacher (Alan Ritchson) getting into another life-threatening situation is the…
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‘House of David’ Episode 6 Recap: Things Get Goliath-Sized
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for House of David Episode 6. We are only two episodes away from the end of House of David's first season, but with news that the series has already been renewed for Season…
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Hellboy: The Crooked Man Review
Though he may be something of a cult legend, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy character has been the focus of more movies than even some of the biggest comic book characters. Beginning with Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman’s live-action films, the…
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Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction In Hulu’s Riveting Series Of Adoption Gone Terribly Wrong
Remember “Orphan?” That rather upsetting horror tale of a deranged woman in her early 30s afflicted with dwarfism who, after posing as a nine-year-old girl, proceeds to inflict a battery of terror upon her adopted parents? Surprisingly, the events of…
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If Rand Could Turn Back Time
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Wheel of Time Season 3 Episode 4. One of the most fascinating aspects of The Wheel of Time's world is the argument that it could equally be categorized as post-futuristic and…
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Move Over, Benoit Blanc; Uzo Aduba’s Quirky Detective Elevates Netflix’s White House Murder Mystery
You know the murder mystery genre has made a resurgence — or perhaps never truly died — when there's even a scene in a new murder mystery show remarking on it. That's the case, no pun intended, for Netflix's new…
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I Had Fun With Bill Skarsgård & Anthony Hopkins’ Occasionally Absurd Action Thriller Despite A Flawed First Impression
Locked gets off to a shaky start, not only as the shaky camera pans across various locations in a city, but also as the film introduces its central conflict. Eddie Barish (Bill Skarsgård) is a young man seeking money to…
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