Wish Upon
Final Destination meets Bruce Almighty in a new horror film called Wish Upon. I don’t know why. Based on The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs, Wish Upon follows Clare (Joey King), a high […]
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer became the greatest TV show of all time, it was a 1992 film, and the first big-screenwriting credit for a young Joss Whedon. As in “Whedon’t talk […]
The Beguiled
Set in rural Mississippi during the Civil War, The Beguiled finds a wounded northern soldier (Colin Farrell) taken in by the ‘Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies’. Sofia Coppola remakes this Clint Eastwood film […]
It Comes At Night and Post-Horror Post-Mortem
The Guardian recently ran an article proclaiming the birth of “post-horror“, its chief example being Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes At Night. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where a virus […]
Baby Driver
It’s standard practice: walking around, listening to music and imagining you’re in a movie. We’ve all done it; Edgar Wright’s gone and made it. Baby Driver is not a prequel […]
Video Nasty 59: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a Spanish-Italian zombie film from 1974. It has more than 15 titles internationally, including Don’t Open the Window (the film has literally nothing to do with windows) and The […]
The Red Turtle
From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Finding Nemo, turtles have a reputation in Hollywood of being crass or stoned. As ever, it’s up to a foreign film to redress […]
Showgirls
As Twin Peaks returns to the delight and confusion of viewers, let’s look back on Kyle MacLachlan’s career lowlight. And I’m not talking about How I Met Your Mother. This 1995 stripper […]
Baywatch
Hollywood continues its obsession with nostalgic, ironic reboots of ’80s TV shows with Baywatch, which remains the most ’80s TV show of all time despite being on in the ’90s. […]
Battlefield Earth
To celebrate the release of Wonder Woman, the film that critics are already calling “a superhero movie with a woman in it”, let’s look back on another Warner Bros. landmark. It’s the year […]
