The overlong It: Chapter Two at times feels like a mere compilation of deleted scenes from the previous movie, an unfortunate consequence of its needless, nearly fatal dependence on flashbacks. Director Andy Muschietti in adapting Stephen King’s behemoth of a novel made a key change: the book, and the original 1990 miniseries, jumps back and…
The Chucky franchise is approached from a different angle entirely in Child’s Play, the new horror film for which the term “remake” hardly seems appropriate. It might have the same title and basic premise as the 1988 classic, but in virtually every way, this is a fundamentally different story. In this case, though, that’s not such a bad thing, even if the…
David Gordon Green and Danny McBride talked at length leading up to Halloween about their decision to erase all of the previous sequels out of canon. But did they ever think for a minute about how the franchise actually got to the point that this move was necessary? It wasn’t because things got too “convoluted” or that there…
The Nun isn’t a disaster, but it’s quite obviously a major stumble for the Conjuring universe.
Unfriended: Dark Web is no V/H/S 2.
For the fourth time in a row, a Purge movie has fallen severely short of its potential.
*This post will contain spoilers for A Quiet Place* The premise of A Quiet Place sounds like something a screenwriting professor would come up with as a way of explaining the principle of “show, don’t tell.” If you want audiences to understand how the world of your film works, the teacher would say, you shouldn’t have a…
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is one of those movies that completely enraptures you during its running time, only to leave you spending the rest of the night poking holes in the plot and realizing that none of it seems to make that much sense. Looking back on the film — which I really enjoyed, by the way —…
After watching Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad last year, I left the theater in a state of bewilderment to be sure, but I can’t say that I was overly disappointed. After all, I don’t have much of a personal connection to the DC comic book characters, nor was I particularly invested in the success of a DC cinematic…
The most common criticism being leveled at Blair Witch this weekend is that it’s a lazy retread of the original, and that is completely baffling to me because I had the exact opposite problem with it. I legitimately do not understand how this movie fits in to the established Blair Witch mythology, and it does not at all feel like the…
