3 Best Releases From the Genre Reality

Delia, oh, Delia, Delia all my life/If I hadn't have shot poor Delia/I'd have had her for my wife/Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone." Continue Reading →

Unbreakable is as of its time as a movie can be. Released in 2000, when comic movies were in the public consciousness enough to justify committing a big budget and stars, but not so successful that they felt impersonal or routine. It was M. Night Shyamalan's fourth movie and, in a way, his second. After Praying with Anger (which never left the festival circuit) and Wide Awake failed to make much of a critical or box office impression, The Sixth Sense tapped the underserved audience for austere, adult sci-fi/fantasy thrillers to the tune of nearly seven hundred million dollars and six Oscar nominations. Continue Reading →

A crew of workers isolated from the rest of the world encounters some kind of biological agent that turns the infected against the uninfected. A blood test can easily reveal infected individuals, but complications ensue when attempts to apply the test begin. No, I’m not reviewing The Thing. I’m not reviewing either of those X-Files episodes, “Ice” or “Firewalker.” Instead, I’m talking about The Rig, a new series from Prime Video that’s thick with ideas drawn from other works. Continue Reading →