The latest movie to feature Charles Schulz’s iconic Peanuts gang came out this weekend, opening to warm if somewhat mixed reviews, and a respectable $45 million in the U.S. and Canada. Arriving just in time for the holidays, The Peanuts Movie, swinging for the fences with everything in its arsenal of lacquered nostalgia and...
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One of the hardest things for a movie to evoke is a mounting sense of dread. There are so many horror and thriller films that rely on violence or staccato blasts of music to put the audience on the edge of their seats. It’s much harder to make the audience feel unsafe by seemingly...
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You’ve never seen a haunted house like this one. It doesn’t simply creak at night; the east wind howls through it with deafening force. There are no leaks in the ceiling but there is a giant hole directly above the main foyer. Snow falls as if it has been invited. The water from the...
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There’s a knock on your front door. You know what’s coming but don’t want to believe it. You lie to your family members, telling them not to worry, that you’ve got it all under control. You take a deep breath and open the door. A well-dressed man holds out his hand. He’s flanked by...
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There’s a small horror movie from Germany playing in select theaters right now that most critics are hailing as some kind of dark masterpiece in the vein of The Babadook and It Follows. That kind of praise, coupled with it’s creepy trailer, got my attention real quick so I’m sorry to report that Goodnight Mommy is a stunning disappointment....
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I haven’t been on this planet quite 30 years yet. I just turned 29 in 2015 and while I’m getting close to being at the base of the proverbial “hill” I still have one year of my twenties to live it up. I define “living it up” by watching netflix on Friday nights and...
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The Visit looks like an easy movie to make fun of. It’s got an inherently creepy premise that could easily teter over into unintentional comedy in the wrong director’s hands. One need only take a look at the trailers to see what I’m talking about. Any movie that treats an old lady screaming ‘YAHTZEE’ into...
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Picture this: It’s 1984. You’re a movie fan despairing over the fact that the horror genre is dying. Sure, Halloween was great and all but you’ve seen nothing but copycats since then. Slasher movies with obnoxious and obvious titles like Don’t Answer the Phone and When a Stranger Calls have become the norm. You sort of enjoy the Friday the...
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I Never Saw Fantastic Four, or: Why Flops Don’t Matter Anymore
“Reef? I got a reef. I got reefs comin’ outta my ASS!!”—Two-Time Academy Award Winner Marlon Brando I haven’t written much about movies this year because I haven’t seen much. The last film I saw in the cinema was Mad Max Fury Road and you cannot convince me any film released theatrically since is worth...
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Rectify concluded it’s third season on Thursday night and I’m sure that virtually none of you were aware of this. Hell, you probably weren’t even aware of its existence. It’s on a channel that everyone has but no one watches (Sundance), it doesn’t have an immediately engaging hook like ‘Sopranos in Middle Earth‘ or ‘Mr. Chips...
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