My mind is busy considering the presence of two distinctly engrossing thrillers of sex and violence set within the adult film industry, one a vividly romantic neo-giallo fairy tale, the other a discomfiting, tragicomic spiral into murder and depravity.
Isaac Feldberg
Film Review: “Greta” — Psycho Thriller, Qui Est-Ce?
A B-movie par excellence, Greta’s the kind of unhinged and yet fiendishly well-calibrated genre fare that rarely gets afforded the attentions of a director as accomplished as Neil Jordan.
TV Review: “The Umbrella Academy” — What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stranger
What’s a band of re-orphaned misfits to do? Dance away the pain, obviously.
Film Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Broken “Glass”
M. Night Shyamalan turns the trilogy topper he needed to make after Unbreakable and Split into a preposterous group therapy session.
Film Review: “Pledge” — Lambdas to the Slaughter
Pledge is Daniel Robbins’ third film, and his first really good one.
Film Feature: More Top Movies of 2018
We need Blindspotting. It’s an eye-opening, indispensable film, and the year’s crowning artistic achievement.
Film Review: “Roma” — A Soulful Masterpiece
Roma is Alfonso Cuarón’s gorgeous, neorealist ode to his formative years growing up in ’70s Mexico City, and to the housekeeper he took for granted as she carried him through that tumultuous decade.
Film Review: “Wildlife” — The American Dream, Ablaze
This is a sublime little film — an elegantly cross-stitched portrait of an all-American family fracturing under the weight of broken dreams and false promises.
Film Review: “The Clovehitch Killer” — Sinister at Face Value
The Clovehitch Killer is a creepy little movie about a creepy little idea, the parasitic kind that worms through the ear canal and eats away at brain matter.
Film Review: “Piercing” — A Kinked-Out Curio
Piercing choreographs its weirdness early and often.