Pariah (review)
Writer-director Dee Rees, in an assured feature debut, expands on her award-winning 2007 short of the same name to tell a story all but ignored in pop culture: the coming out of a black teen lesbian.
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Chronicle (review)
The superhero origin story we have become so very familiar with in its purest form, stripped of all the pulp and all the camp that has accreted around the genre.
Intruders (review)
Alas that Intruders doesn’t seem to understand that movie monsters need something more primally urgent about them than it has bothered to attach to its Hollowface.
The Grey movie review: snow men
There is a lot of real-life brutal shit on display, intense facing-your-mortality stuff, and it is anything but pretty…
Underworld: Awakening (review)
The fanboy-wank-material franchise continues! Kate Beckinsale runs around a dank, rainy, gothy, first-person-shooter generic urban landscape. And the blood and brainmatter splatters out at you in 3D! Please to have a cinemagasm!
Shame (review)
Strips away the bullshit to the bare, spare truth: what pop culture typically feeds us as “ordinary” male sexuality is probably worthy of a psychiatric diagnosis.
Haywire (review)
There’s a lot of fight in Haywire, but very little punch — it starts to feel very grim and plodding…
Tatsumi (review)
Singapore’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the upcoming Oscars is an animated Japanese-language ode to legendary gekiga artist Yoshiro Tatsumi…
The Darkest Hour (review)
A simple yet stupid riff on the disaster monster movie…
Goon (review)
So, Seann William Scott is sort of like Forrest Gump. No, I mean in this Goon movie.
