One Man’s Trash: Kristy
Kristy isn’t a person; she’s an ideal. Young, beautiful, privileged, innocent and pure, a Kristy is the closest thing on our mortal coil to an angel. Naturally, Kristys (Kristies?) across the country...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Mohawk
Ted Geoghegan’s second feature film is quite a departure from 2015’s We Are Still Here. While his first movie was a gushing love letter to horror’s history of haunted houses and small town secrets,...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: Murder Party
“I didn’t sign up for Second Degree Assault Party.” See, this is why I’m a dog person. Christopher would’ve been perfectly content to lounge around in his apartment this Halloween, scarfing down...
View ArticleTIFF Journal: Roma
After 17 years, Alfonso Cuarón finally made a follow-up to Y tu mamá también. During his time in Hollywood, Cuarón had a more personal and distinctly Mexican project planned that he was determined...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: Cargo
The end begins with a thoughtful gift. Along with the canned goods and the like that Andy (Martin Freeman) had scavenged from the rotting corpse of a boat, he stumbled upon a bottle of red. He even...
View ArticlePoll: What Device Do You Use for Streaming Video?
These days, it seems like pretty much any piece of consumer electronics you can get your hands on will stream video from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and more. For home theater purposes, what streaming...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: Terrifier
Moral of the story: the gig economy saves lives. At least, if Dawn and Tara had called an Uber rather than drunkenly bickering over car keys, they wouldn’t have wound up in the crosshairs of a...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: Malevolent
Preying on those who believe their homes to be haunted – it’s a racket that did well enough back in the U.S., and it looks like it’s going to make this brother/sister duo a fortune now that they’re in...
View ArticleNow Streaming: The Other Side of the Wind
For decades, no one thought that Orson Welles’ final film, The Other Side of the Wind, would be finished, let alone shown publicly. Welles shot the movie between 1970 and 1976, but never completed the...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: The Night Comes for Us
Having written about so many horror flicks for this column, it’s little wonder that I’d eventually feel compelled to give another genre a shot. In doing so, I inadvertently wound up picking a movie...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs Review: How the West Was Weird
The Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is simultaneously an odd addition to their oeuvre and yet perfectly in keeping with their wild, acerbic tone. The film was birthed as a television...
View ArticleNow Streaming: The Christmas Chronicles
Kurt Russell has made a career out of being a man’s man. After outgrowing his child acting days, Russell has had a long run of ass-kicking, heroic (though occasionally clumsy) roles that have kept him...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Filmworker
Stanley Kubrick had a reputation as a demanding perfectionist, to put it lightly. Of all the people who worked with him over the decades, perhaps none experienced the true extent of the filmmaker’s...
View ArticleNow Streaming – Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Netflix’s Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle might pull from the same Rudyard Kipling story as Disney’s The Jungle Book, but this dark tale of survival has no singing bears for the kiddos’ amusement. It’s an...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Dumplin’
When it comes down to it, Dumplin’ doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen before. It’s a tale of self-acceptance and growing up through the framework of competition and community. However, it still...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: The Vault
Whatever you’re doing right now, stop! There’s a James Franco movie on Netflix about a haunted bank vault! Okay, okay, maybe that’s not in quite the same league as The Toybox, which pits Denise...
View ArticleNow Streaming – Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Part movie, part game, mostly a gimmick, Netflix hopes that its new Black Mirror one-off special, the weirdly-titled Bandersnatch, will be the start a new wave of interactive streaming entertainment....
View ArticleNow Streaming: Bird Box
Based on the novel by Josh Malerman, Bird Box is the latest addition to both Netflix’s original film lineup and the horror subgenre featuring sensory deprivation. The post-apocalyptic thriller is...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Godless
The explosion of quality television programming these days, especially on streaming, has made it nearly impossible to keep up with every new show of interest, no matter how buzzed or acclaimed. The...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: Truth or Dare (2017)
Cannibalism seems like the sort of thing you’d work your way up to in a game of Truth or Dare, but nope! Alex is munching on bits of her boyfriend in round one. Well, it could be worse. The last time...
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