Us is at most an OK horror film
Doppelgänger horror has been a long-time subgenre of scary movies. Enemy (2013), based on the mind-bending book The Double by José Saramago, is probably...
John David Washington on being a child actor for ‘Uncle Spike’...
When actor John David Washington thinks back to the first Spike Lee film set he ever worked on, the BlacKkKlansman star says his direction...
Relationships and dreams collide in ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ – a film...
One of the trickier plot devices for films to earn in their narrative are dream sequences. Dreams are easy ploys to lean on to...
Deepwater Horizon and the fragility of humanity in the face of...
With Deepwater Horizon, director Peter Berg returns to another botched, fatal mission featuring Mark Wahlberg. Whereas Lone Survivor (2014) involved the military and bad communication that ended...
Wonder Woman is a plus for the woman’s perspective in same...
In the shadow of the hype that we now finally have a Wonder Woman movie lies a clear truth about big budget studio productions: If you...
Director Lenny Abrahamson surprised The Little Stranger reviews are being held...
Every once in a while there comes a movie that studios strain to market. The Little Stranger, the new movie by Room director Lenny...
Independent Ethos Radio Hour – episode 1
It's here, the first episode of The Independent Ethos Radio Hour on Joltradio.org. To sum it up, this was recorded just after I attended...
Love is flawed in almost every cinematic way possible — a...
I’m of the view that Gaspar Noé's 2001 movie Irreversible is nothing more than an exercise in shallow self-indulgence. It’s a cruel film whose real...
‘Oslo, August 31st:’ a film about those small wasted opportunities of...
At first, Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st might feel like an indulgent, meandering film filled with chatty people who cannot stop saying the obvious or...
Lessons in decadence for 2 distinct Queens of Versailles
Two movies about two different queens of two different Versailles hit local indie art houses today. Though one focuses on the most famous queen...