There are moments in Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a quaint-yet-cursed Maine village (Very Bad Things happen every 27 years, many of them having to do with kids) where the sights and sounds are enough. Those are 12-year-old kids up there on the screen seeing their worst …
Writer-director Trey Edward Shults follows his debut sensation Krisha with a close-quarters horror thriller set in a post-pandemic world. Joel Edgerton plays the head of an isolated family whose carefully regulated order is upset when some thirsty wretches come knocking on their door. (Well, breaking into their home, actually, but …
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey wanted to study chimpanzees in the wild in order to better understand the life of early man. He chose his pretty English secretary Jane Goodall for the project, in part because she had “a mind unbiased by scientific thinking,” and thank the stars he did, because she …
Jonathan Breck returns as the Creeper in this rare sequel/prequel (sprequel?) set between the first and second film. Directed by Victor Salva.
What a great opening! An olde-timey movie, projected onto an urban facade, showing an automotive crash. Pan down to a motorcycle, sliding on its side along the rain-slicked street — the crash has actually happened; the movie is reality. The bike’s owner scrambles into view, picks it up, takes off, …
One of the Bible's biggest stories comes to life. One night only.
The historical understructure of Nick Hamm’s The Journey came as news to me. Mr. Ugly American must have been at the movies the week Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) united their rivaling factions. The thought of being a fly …
A monk and his trio of disciples — Sandy, a giant, endearingly repulsive fish out of water; Pigsy, a porcine blunderer hiding beneath a porcelain mask; and the Monkey King, a scamp who would have served well in the winged army of Oz’s Wicked Witch – forge ahead in their …
Star-studded reboot of a movie based on a video game. Look how far we've come from the river.