Slender Man
Let me start with some real-world background: in 2014, an American kid stabbed a classmate in the woods after reportedly being inspired by Slender Man, a meme that came from […]
Monthly Archives: August 2018
A Spike Lee Joint: BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee parks his tanks on the lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in this adaptation of the remarkable true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first black detective […]
The Equalizer 2
This sequelizer to The Equalizer stars Denzel Washington as the eponymous neutralizer of vandalizers, terrorizers and burglarizers. It’s the perfect film if you want to catch some Zs. Since the […]
Unfriended: Dark Web
Unfriended: Dark Web is the latest entry into the internet-based found footage sub-genre, or ‘pwned footage’ for short. More an anthology-style successor than a sequel to 2014’s Unfriended (which is […]
Re-Animator
Today we look back on Re-Animator to celebrate H. P. Lovecraft’s birthday; a writer whose ideas still echo loudly around the horror genre and certain parts of the Labour Party. Jeffrey […]
The Meg
This US-China co-production is the worst thing to happen in American-East Asian Relations since the Singapore summit. Jason Statham goes back to his diving roots by plummeting to the depths of […]
Pom Poko
Isao Takahata’s Pom Poko follows a gang of shapeshifting raccoons as they hatch a series of fur-brained schemes to stop humans from destroying their forest home. Let’s call it Avotter. Where Studio Ghibli’s […]
First Reformed
Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried star in ecclesiastical psychodrama First Reformed, a name so forgettable that you wonder what they were thinking when Bjorn Again was sitting right there. There […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The world’s only superhero vulnerable to Henry Hoovers is back and teaming up with the Wasp, whose powers, as her name suggests, involve being an affluent white lady. Scott Lang […]
Screen Goblin 