“I could not even begin to take stock of what they will say about me,” says Dr. Orion Zephyr (Ron Perlman) at the beginning of Succubus. “This is my research. You can’t force me to love you like that. I love you. Forgive me.” In short order, the man leaves his office, takes an ax […]
Seven long years have passed, and since then, Joseph Kahn has not made another movie, until then, Bodied: a controversial dark comic film about a liberal white kid who accidentally turns into an authentic battle rap contender. It’s unsettling how Bodied has managed to poke fun at various aspects of culture when it comes to
In the over-the-top dark comedy thriller It’s What’s Inside, a group of college friends have a reunion in an isolated place and engage in a fun, but dangerous mystery party game. The way it does, however, provides a thumb, seeing that there is at all cost to be a lot of South in writer/director Greg
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Hold Your Breath is an apt title for the new Hulu iteration starring Emmy award winner Sarah Paulson. This has a reference to its temporal and spatial setting (namely Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl period in the 1930s), but not very pleasantly disturbing, which is why you will start Hold Your Breath more and more,
Azrael is said to occur in the time after the events of Rapture where the remaining faithful of the world have taken a vow of silence. Males cut their vocal cords leaving only a cross-shape scar to ensure quiet compliance. However, there is another deadly remnant that still exists in the wild but this one
Among all the fictional small towns created by Stephen King, Jerusalem’s Lot (Salem’s Lot) strikes the right chord. Other than the well spoken title which is most associated with salem’s lot – it is a small Maine town that for some reason or another becomes prey to a bloodthirsty vampire. There is also some sort
For the sake of this review’s purpose, it would be senseless to try to persuade anyone that parenting (and motherhood in particular) is not hard. Spoiler alert: it is. For all the beauty and joy of seeing a child grow up, at times being a mother is nothing but a thankless job. With little appreciation
The Last Straw starts off with Andrea and Ervin Litkei’s achy “You Lied to My Heart” which previews the auditory engagement of the audience. Aviation images are quickly shot sequentially, first appearing is a blood mark on the counter then a bloody arm, and lastly an old decommissioned yellow telephone placed Off-Hook. What happened? We
In some cases, it has happened to you that you feel you already know a person well enough, and then you proceed to inwardly curse that person for having thought so. “How did I ever think that this is someone who is worth giving one’s respect?” Or viceversa – they were all right; what was
I have always been intrigued by Roger Ebert’s disappointment with voters and his review of the resoundingly unfavored film by Paul Schrader’s Domininion: Prequel to The Exorcist (Hackett imposed an inferior Tom Cruise – starring The Exorcist: The Beginning to appeal for wider audiences). It is rather bizarre to observe someone of such a praised