curated cinema: “we cannot break bread with you…”
1993’s Addams Family Values is on Paramount+ on both sides of the Atlantic, and Netflix in the UK.
Red One movie review: a very copaganda Christmas
Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among its likable stars is “bested” only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids!
I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about Ari Aster’s 2019 horror flick Midsommar.
Blitz movie review: the unraveling of propaganda
Picaresque childhood misadventures sketch vibrant WWII London. A movie of brutal randomness, feral intensity, and ferocious intimacy. Wildly human, artistically masterful, and completely magnificent.
curated cinema: what it means to kill
2014’s Blue Ruin is streaming on Prime and Tubi in the US; not streaming in the UK (sorry).
curated cinema: a Method to the bloodsucking madness
2000’s Shadow of the Vampire is on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
curated cinema: it’s all funny-scary eldritch atmosphere
2015’s Crimson Peak is streaming on Prime in the US, and available to rent or buy on Prime in the UK.
curated cinema: the fear and rage of being human
2016’s A Monster Calls is streaming on Prime on both sides of the Atlantic.
curated cinema: home is where the ill wind blows
2016’s Under the Shadow is on Netflix (and lots of other services) on both sides of the Atlantic.
curated cinema: the monster in the basement is your pain
2014’s The Babadook is on Netflix, and lots of other services, on both sides of the Atlantic.
