Your experiences during the Pandemic can make Ari Aster's "Eddington" a difficult watch. While it is his most humorous movie to date, it was harder for me to sit through this than "Hereditary" or "Midsommar." The common theme linking all of Ari's movies is they are "Not For Everyone." Your mileage on this one will [...]
Ari Aster does not make movies for himself - he makes them for an audience to experience. If that statement reads bold or brash, it matters not; it is out in the world now. Regardless of how you feel when you walk out of his latest film, Beau Is Afraid, Aster's characters and their situations [...]
Ari Aster, writer, and director of last year's gothic family drama "Hereditary" is back with another disturbing tale of humanity versus horror. Though "Midsommar" shares a common pagan thread, it weaves a very different story, with far more beauty, depth, and gore. The film follows a familiar premise: A group of young Americans travels to [...]
A conversation that has been coming up a lot amongst my fellow cinephiles is "What do you define as scary?" The conversation spawns from people asking either "What's the scariest movie you've seen" or "Is particular movie as scary as everyone says?" There was even a wonderful panel that touched on these subjects at the Phoenix [...]
