[SPOILERS AHEAD] Is anybody else burnt out from obligatory Bad Ends in horror films? It feels like horror filmmakers have adopted this strange notion that ending happily somehow invalidates their work. Sometimes bad ends are appropriate. Robert Eggers’s The Witch (2015)…
Movie Review: ‘We the People – The Market Basket Effect’
I didn’t have good vibes going into Tommy Reid’s We the People: The Market Basket Effect. For one, the clumsy title reminded me of right-wing conspiracy theory documentaries like the Zeitgeist series, Fahrenhype 9/11, and the more recent Vaxxed: From…
Movie Review: ‘Viktoria’
I’d like to institute a new rule: if you’re a first-time director, you get 90 minutes for your debut film. If you have previous experience with short films, commercials, and/or music videos, then you maybe get 100. The problem is…
Movie Review: ‘Dough’
John Goldschmidt’s Dough is a film of great warmth, lofty intentions and mediocre screenwriting. It contains the gem of a pleasantly heartfelt if benign dramedy—even if it was written by Charlie Kaufman, I doubt it could ever have been a…
Movie Review: ‘3rd Street Blackout’
I remember being in the Bowery during Hurricane Sandy when the lights went off, and everything went dark. I remember being herded into the only building in the area with emergency power alongside with my other New York University classmates.…
Movie Review: ‘One More Time’
In recent decades Christopher Walken has developed a strange, catty-cornered acting style bordering on camp with its aggressive self-awareness of the central performative aspect of acting. He doesn’t just speak lines, he chews them up and gobs them out in…
Movie Review: ‘Pandemic’
I do feel bad for the distributors handling John Suits’ Pandemic (2016). I don’t have a clue how they’re going to market this film. The trailer presents it as a kind of cross between Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza’s [REC]…
