Psychosexual horror comedy featuring tentacle sex and a satirical sledgehammer to therapy culture is a hard sell anywhere. For something like that to work, you've got to be all in on the vibes. If not, the whole thing crumbles and becomes an insufferable sit, the hyper stylized execution more
GET READY FOR YOUR MIND TO BE BLOWN... In 2020, the McManus brothers came out with a film called The Block Island Sound that became a bit of an underground cult hit. I found it to be a compelling little mystery, that put this directing duo on my radar. Five years later they have returned with
Sometimes it's best to go into movies blind, and that's how I pretty much went into the black comedy Twinless, written and directed by James Sweeney and starring Sweeney alongside Dylan O'Brien. The only whispers I heard about the movie were some of the buzz it generated during this year's Sundance
The Apothecary Diaries begins its long-awaited third season, introducing Maomao to a potential plague in Ep. 49 "Locusts". The nature of the plague is quite obvious as you can tell from the title. The real mystery here is how all the characters plan to deal with this looming threat to the entire
The V/H/S series has been a beacon of spookiness and terror in the month of October since its move to Shudder. With this ninth installment in the series, they're focusing on music and sound as the theme. Between the six directors on board (Ernest Dickerson, RZA, Flying Lotus, Tobias Forge, David
Brad Bird makes a strong case that animated feature films are every bit as serious as works of art as any other entry in the medium. And despite his insistence that plot and compelling drama determine his choices scene after scene, maintaining an audience’s determination to stick with the story,