[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Hundreds of Beavers  isn’t just the best comedy released to the general...

Creature from the Black Lagoon  belongs to the horror genre; that much is obvious. Not from the perspective of the human “protagonists,”...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] With the possible exception of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Michael Powell's Peeping Tom opens with an extreme closeup of an...

While Alice, Sweet Alice  (alternatively titled Communion and Holy Terror ) ostensibly takes place in the early 1960s, its themes are...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] For approximately ninety percent of its ( extremely brief)...

I’ll say this for Torso : it wastes little time; within the first ten seconds  of the opening credits, a woman has already removed her...

Like many a follow-up to a bona fide cult classic, Tokyo: The Last War  (sequel to Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis ) is widely considered to...

Hit Man  features a multitude of compelling themes, meditating on the conflict between public and private personae, the subjective nature...

Master Gardner  opens with the quintessential Paul Schrader image: a character in an otherwise empty room hunched over a writing desk,...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] I’m trying to remove the term “body horror” from my film criticism...

How to describe She Is Conann ? The film resists literalist readings, eschewing traditional narrative in favor of concocting a...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Near the conclusion of Isabel Sandoval’s quietly beautiful Lingua...

Prior to seeing DAN DA DAN: First Encounter —a special theatrical premiere event for Science SARU’s latest anime series, presented by...

Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond  wastes little time. After treating the audience to approximately thirty seconds of Jeffrey Combs turning...

Well, they’ve finally designed a web game that appeals specifically to my interests—and I am thoroughly addicted. Cine2Nerdle  is...

The Tempest  epitomizes my favorite flavor of Shakespeare adaptation: lean, revisionist, and minimalistic (a musical number or two...

Disco Elysium  is a rare and precious gem indeed: a video game that utilizes the language of the medium to its full potential....

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus  is innovative in the elegant simplicity of its style and structure. It’s not a traditional documentary, lacking...

The Greasy Strangler . Aggressively weird. Mostly dug its vibe (kinda reminded me of Frank Henenlotter’s work). Never want to see or...