There is something inherently terrifying about childbirth, a violent biological miracle in which the human body stretches, tears, bleeds, and somehow produces life. Raymond Creamer’s Goody Goody understands this unpleasant truth ...
What if all this strange activity in the skies isn’t new? What if humanity has been seeing the same damn things for thousands of years, only describing them with the language available at the time? That is the rabbit hole Clive Christopher happily ...
There are movies whose budgets are visible in every frame, and then there are movies where something far more interesting is visible: the sheer determination required to get the damn thing made. Cursed Waters belongs firmly in the latter ...
ionel Atwill is performing illegal experiments on human beings. Again. At some point you'd think somebody in the Universal universe would stop giving this man access to medical equipment but thank God nobody does because ...
Legend of the White Dragon arrives carrying enough emotional baggage to crush the goddamn thing before it ever gets airborne. Conceived as a harder, bruised-up riff on the color-coded heroics that made Jason David Frank an icon, the film ...
Woman Incarcerated: Strands of Hope enters a Florida jail with every opportunity to become another well-meaning documentary about rehabilitation, redemption, and second chances. Those phrases have been polished smooth by ...
There is something inherently suspicious about people who are too nice. Not kind, necessarily, but agreeable in that frictionless, smiling way that suggests either a pyramid scheme or something much worse. Peter Stylianou’s The ...
Holy shit, this might just be my favorite interpretation of Macbeth. Shakespeare’s tragedy has survived castles, battlefields, boardrooms, and countless high-school English classrooms, but it feels unexpectedly at home ...