With the ongoing, continuously exhausting debate that goes on in physical media/cinephile circles about streaming vs. owning a movie and that whole conversation, it is *always* a win when a movie, regardless of anything about the movie, gets a release… Read More ›
Jared Abrahamson
The rollercoaster of consistency in the Sony Pictures “Venom” series comes to a flat end with “The Last Dance.”
When the trailers first dropped for director Ruben Fleischer’s Venom (2018), audiences got a taste of something truly exciting as it looked like Sony Pictures might take the Marvel Comics villain-turned-anti-hero and introduce him through a body horror-like science fiction… Read More ›
Once Stewart Thorndike’s “Bad Things” checks you in, you may never leave. [Tribeca Film Festival]
A movie relies on a lot of things to be successful, but one thing it relies on to capture audiences that does not get talked about nearly enough is the atmosphere. A movie can be the most horrifying thing ever… Read More ›
Part documentary, part dramatization, crime drama ‘American Animals’ is fully mesmerizing.
There’s this feeling that infuses all youth; a feeling that something at some point from somewhere will happen and their lives will rise up out of the banal to become extraordinary. That feeling can turn into a sense of existential… Read More ›