If you’ve heard of The Hunt, you’ve most likely heard how it was pulled from its original theatrical release date due to controversy surrounding its plot. What you likely didn’t hear about was the fact that, by and large, the film is a satire. It’s designed to play on theContinue Reading
After serving 2 tours of duty in Afghanistan, Alicia West (Naomie Harris) returns home to New Orleans to serve as a police officer. As she makes the rounds with her partner, she quickly learns that things have changed since she left. Not so much in her neighborhood — which remainsContinue Reading
It’s not unusual these days to hear of someone doing something really stupid for the sake of Internet fame. Whether it be a person hurting themselves while trying to make the next viral video, a person falling off a cliff while taking a selfie, or a prank gone horribly wrong,Continue Reading
In 2008, Sylvester Stallone co-wrote and directed Rambo, a film that was thought to be the final entry in the Rambo series of films. The series, which began in 1982 with First Blood, portrayed a Vietnam veteran waging a one-man war against injustice. Over the course of four films, includingContinue Reading
If you were alive during the Cold War, you know first-hand how much the threat of nuclear war was always present. Most of us tried to put it out of our minds as much as possible but reminders of the threat were everywhere. Movies from that time period, especially theContinue Reading
One of the best-known slasher film tropes is that those who engage in casual sex are marked for death. David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows takes that cliché one step further. For one partner, having sex passes a mark of death onto the other. The recipient has to have sex withContinue Reading
Watching anthology films, especially those in the horror genre, can be an uneven experience if the included short films aren’t ordered a certain way. Trilogy of Terror, a 1975 made-for-TV horror anthology, is an example of an anthology that certainly saves the best for last. As one might be ableContinue Reading