From Ad Astra to Us, we celebrate the cream of the cinematic crop in 2019.
Author: Gena Radcliffe
Mrs. Coulter is rejected once again, and the Gyptians ride in to rescue the missing children.
Nicolas Cage stars in a Southern fried psychological thriller that’s both too much, and not enough.
Things take a bleak turn as Lyra goes on a side trip & discovers the fate of one of the missing children.
Roller skating as a pastime for the rich & famous lasted barely a year, but resulted in some of the best in 70s kitsch cinema.
Apple TV+ adds another just okay series to its lineup, psychological horror produced by M. Night Shyamalan.
Lyra & the Gyptians get some formidable muscle, both human and otherwise, in a dazzling, emotionally moving fourth episode.
Peter Weir’s mostly forgotten drama about survivor’s guilt is an uncynical light in the darkness of mental illness. […]
Lyra finally understands what it means to have a family, as Mrs. Coulter cranks things up on the evil dial.
Lyra discovers Mrs. Coulter’s dark side in an occasionally overstuffed second episode.
Remembering when Tom Cruise defied audience expectations in a campy, sumptuous adaptation of Anne Rice’s vampire soap opera.
HBO & the BBC’s lavish adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy series is off to a fine, visually stunning start.
Apple+’s new drama about the cutthroat world of TV news looks good but suffers from derivative, clumsy writing. […]
Travis Stevens’ funny & creepy haunted house movie pits toxic masculinity against vengeful female ghosts.
Hell hath no fury like a feral woman scorned in Adolfo Alix Jr.’s beautiful but baffling revenge horror film.
The precursor to “Dracula” gets a sumptuous if not entirely faithful film adaptation.
Alice Furtado’s obsessive teen romance-horror is long on atmosphere, and lean on everything else.
Johannes Nyholm’s surreal horror endurance test traps a grieving couple in a nightmarish version of “Groundhog Day.”
