& Categories Movies Reviews June 11, 2020 “Warning: Do Not Play” is a limp “Ring” retread Shudder's latest is a slick but familiar K-horror exercise too thin to land its big narrative twists.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 27, 2019 “Inglourious Basterds” Lets Tarantino Turn the Propaganda Back on his Audience Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked WWII film lets him turn the camera around on the audience and interrogate his own violent oeuvre.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 7, 2019 “Reservoir Dogs” is Quentin Tarantino’s Bloody Rosetta Stone Quentin Tarantino's breakout debut feature is a bloody distillation of his best and worst instincts.
S Categories Features Movies May 31, 2019 Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me to Hell” Remains a Bloody B-Movie Delight Ten years after its release, Sam Raimi's return to Evil Dead-like horror remains a gory good time.
G Categories TV April 28, 2019 Game of Thrones Recap: “The Long Night” Is Dark – Very Dark – And Full of Terrors The war between the living and the dead reaches its apex in the long-awaited, but fairly boilerplate, climax of Game of Thrones.
P Categories Movies April 4, 2019 Pet Sematary Review: Raising the Dead Leads to Cat-astrophe Initially faithful to the source material, Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer's take on the Stephen King classic goes in a new and creepier direction.
T Categories Features February 28, 2019 The Passion of the Christ at 15: Have We Forsaken Gibson’s Epic? Fifteen years on, we still wrestle with the value of Mel Gibson the man and his violent, controversial take on Christ's death.
M Categories Interviews Movies Podcasts Right on Cue January 25, 2019 More of a Comment, Really….: Jonas Akerlund and Mads Mikkelsen (POLAR); Director Jason Polevoi (F*** YOUR HAIR) For the latest interview podcast, Clint talks to the filmmakers behind Netflix’s Polar, and the director of a local Chicago doc about a small local..
E Categories Uncategorized January 3, 2019 Escape Room Review: Come for the Fun, Stay Because You’re Trapped January kicks off in earnest with an inventive, if stock, puzzle-box horror flick.
C Categories TV December 14, 2018 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, “A Midwinter’s Tale” Review: A Christmas Séance The spooky Netflix series returns for a fun, but inessential holiday special.