Human Capital, which premiered at TIFF this week, is the fifth film from director Marc Meyers, responsible for the well-received My Friend Dahmer that made the festival rounds several years ago. Human Capital is a remake of an Italian movie, loosely based on a Stephen Amidon novel, and […]
In 2006, a massive eruption of hot mud in Sidoarjo, Indonesia buried 16 villages and drove more than 60,000 people out to escape the sudden, unstoppable flow. The eruption was caused by Lapindo, a natural gas company, who had been drilling deep in the earth and struck a […]
In the two years since It was unleashed on the world, enthusiasm for the second half of the story has been high. The bar was set and many wondered if director Andy Muschietti could recapture the same magic he had elicited from his child stars with their adult counterparts? […]
Hitchcock’s Murder! is generally treated as one of his lesser films, and for good reason: there are large swaths that feel like a filmed play, in which characters sit around and talk to each other, sometimes very slowly. The staginess of the scenes contribute to the film’s overall […]
A recent spate of horror films have hit the ground running, as it were, taking just enough of their ninety-minute runtime to establish their characters before getting to the nastiness. Ready or Not is one of them, a perfectly paced tale of class warfare and mayhem, in which […]
Blackmail is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most iconic and yet lesser-seen films. Much like many of his British films, poor quality public domain versions have floated around on DVD and on the internet for years now, images grainy and soundtrack barely decipherable. Kino Lorber’s release of Blackmail on […]
As the film Darlin’ opens, a filthy, feral teenage girl (Lauryn Canny), identified as Darlin’ by the bracelet on her wrist, walks out of the woods accompanied by a Woman (Pollyanna McIntosh, who also directs), on her way to a hospital. Growling and frightened, she snarls at the […]
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