Reviews
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‘Star Trek Beyond’: To Boldly Go Where Many, Many Summer Movies Have Gone Before
All the best parts of a summer movie, all the worst parts of a ‘Star Trek’ film.
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Lights Out: Aimlessly Adrift Horror Flick Lacks Substance
The short that inspired it packs more frights into its 3+ minutes of running time. At the root of all fears lies the dread of the…
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Equals Is Sleepy Selfsame Sci-Fi
A promising cast is hamstrung by its emotionless premise. In the world of Drake Doremus’s Equals, the future is bleak out of efficient emotional economics.…
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Train to Busan Review: They’ll Punch Your Ticket With Their Teeth
Train to Busan Shows a Taste for Human Flesh and an Eye for Social Commentary It’s World War Z on the Korean Express. Zombies! Love ’em…
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Three Review: It’s Out of Ten
Johnnie To’s Three Should Be Subtitled ‘Out of Ten’ Fantasia Film Festival 2016 Steven Spielberg’s 1941. Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. William…
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As the Gods Will Review: Japan’s Cure for Boredom Remains Killing Teens
As the Gods Will, As Miike Takashi Does Fantasia Film Festival 2016 There’s an old saying that goes “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes…
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Bed of the Dead Review: Its Sleep Number Is 666
Bed of the Dead’s Sleep Number is 666 Fantasia Film Festival 2016 Until now the list of movies about killer beds could be counted on one one-fingered…
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time on The Night Of
The HBO crime drama’s second episode reveals the truth will not set you free. In the second installment of HBO’s crime drama The Night Of, “Subtle…
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In a Valley of Violence Review: Ti West Delivers with John Wayne Wick-lite
In a Valley of Violence Is a Small Western Packing a Bloody Punch Funny, exciting, and the best John Travolta performance in years. Writer/director Ti West’s filmography…