Thanksgiving
This slasher flick concerns a stampede at a Black Friday sale, a familiar image for anyone who has visited a Westfield or read the short story I wrote 3 years […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
A Netflix for Christmas
Despite having once co-created a Hallmark movie generator, I had never actually seen one until this ill-advised double-bill – and I possibly still haven’t as the provenance of these festive […]
Past Lives
A pair of childhood sweethearts (Greta Lee and Teo Yoo) reconnect in this semi-autobiographical, inter-continental, star-crossed love story. Spanning 24 years, the plot follows Na Young from Seoul to New York […]
Get Out
Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) family and experiences the worst cigarette detox this side of Shane in Survivor 12. Jordan Peele’s 2017 debut proves he’s the […]
Candyman
An academic’s (Virginia Madsen) research into urban legends takes her through the looking glass when one grizzly ghost story gets its hooks into her. This psychological thriller might be best […]
Tattoo (2002)
Tattoo is a German thriller from 2002, not to be confused with the 1981 American movie Tattoo or the Russian band t.A.T.u. This film has perhaps the most ridiculous opening […]
The Exorcist: Believer
Inspired by The Exorcist‘s defiling of a childhood bedroom, director David Gordon Green trashes a beloved property in this heretical sequel. 50 years after the events of William Friedkin’s Catholic […]
Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy plays the Father of the Atomic Bomb in Oppenheimer, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (and Then Hate the Bomb Again). Christopher Nolan’s […]
The Exorcist
The greatest thing to come out of Catholicism since Pancake Day, The Exorcist is re-released for its 50th anniversary. It follows a famous actor (Ellen Burstyn) who moves to Washington […]
Friday the 13th Parts 1-3
Having rewatched the first three Friday the 13th films on the eponymous, inauspicious occasion, here is another stab at reviewing these classic slashers (and Friday the 13th Part 3). Friday […]
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