Lovecraftian Mob Dramas, WWII Gorefests, & Korean Extremity
From Horror to Action-Exploitation, International Genre Films Shined at TIFF ‘22 by Josh Lewis This year’s Toronto International Film Festival delivered on all the major titles one would hopes to see, including Steven Spielberg’s therapeutic sound-stage recreation of his own childhood in
Can Andor Save Star Wars From Itself?
Andor succeeds as art by throwing corporate synergy to the wind by Josh McNamee Over the last decade a single concept has come to define popular cinema: the cinematic universe. Pioneered—or at least re-pioneered, since it cannot be said to be new—by
REVIEW: “Pipeline” Is A White-Knuckle Thriller With Revolutionary Politics
Daniel Goldhaber's climate-activism thriller deftly combines human drama with sincere political exploration by Josh Lewis Adapted from the 2021 nonfiction manifesto of the same name by human ecology lecturer and climate activist Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is
REVIEW: Barbarian’s Subdued Exterior Hides A Gory Subterranean Freakout
Viewers expecting a typical Airbnb thriller will be in for a shock by Josh Lewis (NOTE: Mild spoilers after the fourth paragraph. You've been warned!) Much like last year’s big-swing genre shocker Malignant—a film that pretended to be yet another modern, polished haunted
They/Them stabs for the heart, but fails to draw blood
Queer horror is more essential than ever—which makes They/Them's fumbles all the more tragic by Lindsay Lee Wallace They/Them, a slasher film set at a queer conversion camp and written and directed by John Logan (Skyfall, Gladiator), could have been a