Since streaming has taken off, many directors have lamented the loss of the theater experience.  While some focus on the communal experience of watching a spectacle with an audience, others emphasize the impact a massive screen and professional sound system can have.  Director Denis Villeneuve has openly complained about the decision to release his...

The astonishing film “Sister Tempest” is not for the faint of heart, nor for those with limited imagination. Instead, if you crave films that will sever your carotid arteries, as well as warm up your still beating heart, then the absolutely gonzo and brilliant filmmaker Joe Badon has created something that will satisfy your...

Halloween Kills In 1978, John Carpenter set the horror genre on its ears with his seminal “Halloween,” the story of a mass murderer who terrorizes a family and the sleepy town of Haddonfield, IL. In 2018, David Gordon Green added a fresh spin on the Halloween franchise, with its twelfth entry, “Halloween,” a solid continuation of...

The Last Duel The Fox – Disney merger left several projects in limbo as Disney either axed or moved projects to streaming platforms. One surviving project is the 2021 adaptation of Eric Jager’s The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France, named “The Last Duel,” produced and directed by Sir...

Ron’s Gone Wrong As we’ve learned over the years, both in the news and in the fictional world, when technology falls into the wrong hands, lousy happenstance occurs to innocent people. Think about Matthew Broderick’s David Lightman in “WarGames.” He may have been a socially awkward teenager who hacked his way into a military computer,...