Longlegs is a horror masterpiece for several reasons, but the best is the most surface-level – this movie is trying really, really hard to scare and entertain you. As disturbing as the subject matter is and as challenging as the film ends up being, you’re also in for a real show....
Unflinchingly devastating in its depiction of the horrors women’s bodies are often subjected to (yet it’s important to note, never exploitative), festival goers reportedly fell ill while watching the movie at this year’s Sundance. It’s a difficult watch, to be sure....
The original Toy Story hit theaters on November 19, 1995 and has been heralded as one of the best animated films ever made. To this day, the film still holds onto a rare 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is beloved by generations of moviegoers. It is no surprise the film sp...
Every once in a while someone reminds me of a movie that I love completely but haven’t thought of in a while. Usually that leads to a couple hours of looking back and listening to the songs from the movie. That happened today. I haven’t seenLove Actuallysince last Christmas or so, ...
Bill the Butcher appears damn near dandyish—a fitting cover for the violent nature that lurks slightly below the surface. While this movie is set in a much more chaotic and malleable form of New York City (long before anything remotely close to “fashion week” was even conceived) it’s ...
Tagline:Forget Me Not. Memorable Movie Quote: Distributor:XYZ Films Official Site: Release Date:December 1, 2022 DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: Synopsis: When her oldest friend is plagued by horrific nightmares from the beyond, Monique is forced to travel to NYC. On the first night of the visit...
– to adulthood. Near the end of the movie’s wrenching climax, as our heroes are about to get cooked alive in an oven, you can’t help but think the inevitable could actually happen. Never have I feared for the lives of animated characters more than in this movie. ...
2023 was the year of Barbenheimer and the year superhero movies took more than one fatal hit and I'm fine with all of that. It was great to see audiences flock to theaters to see two very different July releases, one by Greta Gerwig and the other by Ch
“Me Decade.” Yet, I would argue that it is the very moodiness of the film, coupled with a Quincy Jones-produced funk bottle-rocket of a score, that gets closest to the populism with which L. Frank Baum approached his work. In that sense, one might suggest thatThe Wizmovie, ...
I have seenVertigoon many screens large and small over the years, from its re-release into theaters in 1983, to countless in-home viewings, to a screening last year at Oakland's movie palace, the Paramount Theatre. As I watched Hitchcock's dreamscape unfold onscreen at Davies Hall and lis...