Nicolas Cage is beautiful in it, but this one's a hard no. Vengeance : A Love Story is set inside the savior fantasies of its director and screenwriter.
Nicolas Cage is beautiful in it, but this one's a hard no. Vengeance : A Love Story is set inside the savior fantasies of its director and screenwriter.
Jackie isn't trying to reinvent cinema, but it's suggesting new and bold ways to process history. Starring Natalie Portman. Directed by Pablo Larrain.
Authors like Sam Wiebe not only prove that detective novels aren't dead, but they're raising the bar for the genre.
First Impressions is more of a challenge than a conventional narrative. Can you solve the riddle before the credits roll? Directed by Eric Shapiro. Adapted from a Greg F. Gifune short story.
Black metal sometimes gets bogged down with its own clichés, but it's not the case here. Blight is angry, sophisticated and passionate music.
The B movies aren't dead! Mindgamers is so earnestly terrible that it's a riot to watch. Unfortunately starring Sam Neil.
Entertainment comes from the most unexpected places in the stale and formulaic Marvel Cinematic Universe. Nobody ever thought of Thor as more than an afterthought and here were are...
I haven't had this much fun with a book in quite some time. The Books of Blood are wild, violent and quite clever. Clive Barker is the man.
A nervous and horny couple invite a woman over for a threesome, she starts feeling way too dizzy after drinking some wine, think you know where this is going? Think again.
This movie is both a knock out and an absolute mind-bender. It's also exploring new and exciting ways to tell stories. Starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. Directed by David Lowery.
The adventures of Greg Salem are coming to an end and, of course, I had a first row ticket for the farewell tour.
First stop of the Great Metallica Retrospective: the album that started it all, thrash metal classic Kill 'Em All.
The antagonist is the forgotten hero of the narrative. Sure, he's the bad guy but if he weren't strong, smart and handsome, there wouldn't be a narrative at all.
The collected list of the thirteen longform essays I wrote in 2017. The subjects range from Taylor Swift to why hosting a criticism blog in 2018.
Whether you love it or hate it, Scott Adlerberg writes fiction nobody else could even conceptualize. Jack Waters is another brilliant entry in such a peculiar career.
Sicario might be another one of these border movies, but it is better than advertised and, most important, it doesn't mine a human tragedy for pathos.
Where I spare you 176 minutes of your life and tell you that you're going to be pretty disappointed with this show.
The Brambles shines by its execution more than it does by its ideas. Leah Erickson explores a concept many authors have explored before her, but she does it better than most.
I'm a little late for this announcement, but I was a little late last year, so who gives a fuck, really? CHANGES! YEARLY CHANGES ARE COMING.
Sometimes the best sequel is the one we imagine and that never becomes a reality. Kingsman : The Golden Circle is the exact opposite of that.
