Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (review)
Lacks all sense of magic, of myth, of danger, of humor, of power. A compete and utter all-around disaster…
horror
Mama movie review
Ultimately more sad than scary in ways that are about the power, for both good and ill, of parental love…
Beautiful Creatures (review)
If only movies could be not tossed aside lightly but thrown with great force…
Warm Bodies (review)
Contents itself with the mildest of tweaks at both the zombie and the romantic-comedy genres… (new on DVD/VOD in the US and Canada)
Antiviral (review)
Disturbing body-horror dark satire that sends up our obsession with celebrity…
Chained (review)
An unnerving and provocative grenade lobbed into the heart of the horror genre…
Django Unchained (review)
Quentin Tarantino spins a dark fantasia of the pre-Civil War South that is hilarious, ferocious, shocking, and wise, sometimes all at once.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (review)
The world’s most insipid vampires are back in inaction! Twilight has never been more about people standing around waiting for stuff to happen to them…
Grimm: Season One (review)
LOL for American network television trying to do fantasy. Except Grimm isn’t funny, not even a little — not even accidentally. It’s dull. Worse, it’s so damn tediously conventional.
Paranormal Activity 4 (review)
It’s the Where’s Waldo of spooky stories. (Where’s the ghost? Find the ghost!) But much less fun.
