After a laborious wait and questionable release date timing post-Halloween, Tim Burton’s vision of Wednesday has finally arrived in all its creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky glory. Has there been more note-perfect recent casting than Jenna Ortega (Babysitter: Killer Queen, Scream, X) as Wednesday Addams? Previously played in live action by Lisa Loring in 1964’s … Continue reading TV Review: Wednesday
Film Review: American Carnage
★★★★ An intoxicating combination of Old and 1975 classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, American Carnage is potent campy horror fun at its finest. The film wastes little time getting directly to the point—it gives us a taste of our lead character’s existence before plunging directly into chaos. As an eerie introductory sequence tells … Continue reading Film Review: American Carnage
SXSW 2022: X
★★★★★ Gritty, gory, and disturbing, the new film X from auteur director Ti West (The Sacrament, The House of the Devil) is a deliciously evil and deeply perverse journey into the hellish backwoods of Texas. Feeling like a sinister mix of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre meets Boogie Nights, X carves out a modern slasher … Continue reading SXSW 2022: X
Film Review: Scream
★★★★★ 1996’s Scream from director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson has, over the years, become a bonafide horror classic, and for good reason. In fact, for yours truly, it remains my favorite film of all time, and subsequently the most consistent franchise in a landscape teeming with sub-par sequels. 2022’s Scream knows how amazing … Continue reading Film Review: Scream
SXSW 2021: The Fallout
★★★★ School shootings are a touchy topic for obvious reasons, covered to varying degrees of success in films like Elephant, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and The Dirties. 2021 Sundance Film Festival favorite, Mass, tackled this through the lens of the parents, and how they are affected emotionally. SXSW drama The Fallout similarly approaches … Continue reading SXSW 2021: The Fallout