If you want horror to be horrifying — scary, as opposed to simply tense or shocking — then it helps to shine a light into the those real-life dark corners that people would rather not investigate. The Babadook does just that, gazing steadily upon the strained and fraying mother-love that …
Finally, a film that is not afraid of the nut-shot montage and the "Jesus is watching you masturbate" joke. The plot — guy's sperm go bad on him, so he goes on a quest to regain a healthy sample he once donated to a sperm bank — is a wall …
Bachelorette takes the great emblem of feminine matrimonial anxiety — the wedding dress — and goes to town on it. First, it’s torn. Then it gets bled on. Eventually, it’s also stained with both semen and vomit (the bodily fluid trifecta!), but not before it gets stuffed into a garbage …
Poor Elizabeth Halsey. She needs $10,000 for new boobs, the kind big enough to attract a sugar daddy by sheer gravitational pull. But, alas, she’s just a poor teacher, in every sense of the word. Whatever will she do? Doesn’t matter, really: the point here is hearing Cameron Diaz talk …
In 2012, writer-director Drew Goddard took a bunch of teens to a Cabin in the Woods for a rollicking nightmare subversion of the horror genre. Here, he takes a bunch of strangers — Jeff Bridges’ confused cleric, Jon Hamm’s slick salesman, Dakota Johnson’s haughty hippie, and Cynthia Erivo’s suffering singer, …
For his directorial debut, skilled deadpanner Jason Bateman (Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief) goes full sad clown. Here is my unalloyed pain; I dare you to laugh. Because nothing is funnier than someone else's suffering, right? To help matters, his character - a 40-year-old proofreader who has found a way to …
Once you get past the initial thought of, “Wow, Courtney Love has really let herself go,” you realize that what you’re watching is a documentary about the former front man for Throbbing Gristle and his decision to express his love for his lady fair by trying to look more like …
Fly-on-the-wall doc about Justin Peck — a 25-year-old member of the New York City corps de ballet — and his effort to create an original work for the company. (He got the gig, we are told, because of his success at the New York Choreographic Institute.) The fly is very …
Well, now, looky here. An animated movie about a mermaid who is also a princess. Why, it's almost just like ... [REDACTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE WALT DISNEY MOVIE STUDIO CORPORATION]
In a word, exhausting. In a few more, overblown, overstuffed, repetitive, bombastic, and sometimes just dumb. (Never mind dreary to look at and punishing to hear.) Zack Snyder follows his Superman reboot Man of Steel with a muddled meditation on man's anxiety about God walking the earth. Except of course, …
"Hey kids! Welcome to Disneynature! It's a lot like regular nature, except we've added slo-mo, and also some anthropomorphic aspects to keep you ADHD tykes interested. 'Anthropomorphic' is derived from the Greek 'anthropos' — man — and 'morpho' — form. It means that we change the form of things so …
Author Henry James parable of paralyzing anxiety The Beast in the Jungle treats the case of a man who misses his own life in an attempt to avoid the catastrophe his is certain will befall him. Director and co-writer Bertrand Bonello has adapted the story for an age that is …
The cradle of humanity becomes a crucible of its opposite. Netflix's first foray into theaters makes the most of the big screen's additional square footage by placing its small subject on a very large canvas: specifically, Agu (Abraham Attah), an African boy on the cusp of adolescence, navigating his way …