★★ Aesthetically speaking, slow burn horror Starve Acre looks stunning. Taking a page from many other movies in the so-called "elevated horror" oeuvre, writer/director Daniel Kokotajlo attempts a subtler, more methodical approach to the devilish underpinnings locked within. Doctor Who star Matt Smith leads a trio of performers as the father to a boy one … Continue reading Film Review: Starve Acre
Film Review: The Forgiven
★★ A Moroccan-themed dark dramedy starring a colorful cast of characters that include a coked-up Jessica Chastain, abrasive Ralph Fiennes, a flirtatious Christopher Abbott, and Matt Smith and Caleb Landry Jones as a wealthy queer couple sounded like my idea of a good time. I would watch Chastain in just about anything, and the rest … Continue reading Film Review: The Forgiven
Film Review: Morbius
★★ Marvel and horror has been attempted before (see: 2020’s notorious bomb The New Mutants, which I actually quite liked myself), but long-delayed Morbius from Life and Safe House director Daniel Espinosa attempts to dive deep into the vampiric delights that no production has dared before. Previously, my only familiarity with this character was via … Continue reading Film Review: Morbius