What has A Quiet Place wrought? The alien-invasion horror hit that used silence to amp up tension in its rural setting was brilliantly executed. Because the movie’s ravenous extraterrestrial creatures chase sound, the characters don’t speak aloud, and even their audience feels the pressure not to scream. A Quiet Place’s success with critics and audiences … Read more
The Big Picture Alice Lowe follows her directorial debut Prevenge with even more ambition. The insane combination of “historical sci-fi rom-com” plays like gangbusters. An ensemble cast including Nick Frost, Aneurin Barnard, Jacob Anderson, and Tanya Reynolds work together like a dream. In Alice Lowe’s sophomore feature Timestalker, love is life and death. Like, a … Read more
Image: Rochlin/FilmMagic (Getty Images) Once upon a time, Gore Verbinski was releasing movies at a reliable cadence, from Mouse Hunt and The Ring to the Pirates of the Carribean trilogy. Things took a turn in the 2010s with a pair of box office bombs: 2013’s The Lone Ranger and 2016’s A Cure for Wellness. He’s … Read more
Italian horror master Lucio Fulci is best known for his gruesome Gates of Hell trilogy—especially The Beyond—and the immortal Zombi 2, but his career also contained excellently off-kilter giallo movies, including Don’t Torture a Duckling and The New York Ripper. The Psychic, coming soon to Shudder, has fewer of those lurid elements that became Fulci … Read more
San Beda Red Lions’ James Payosing. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net Jacob Cortez celebrated early, hoisting the ball like a trophy in one hand while punching the air in the other. The whippet-quick guard’s jubilation was justified with still 26 seconds left on the clock, as the San Beda Red Lions—after a four-year absence that is considered too … Read more
The top non-English language film on Netflix last week was The Conference—a Swedish horror movie that’s no doubt drawing viewers in with its thumbnail of a ghoulishly grinning, dirt-stained mask. Those who click on it will be rewarded with a blend of corporate satire and campground slasher, filled with some of the most creative gore … Read more
Frank Zappa and Dee Snider testified earlier than the US Senate concerning the Filthy Fifteen – Picture: Mark Weiss/Getty Photos It has been a long time since 15 songs – the so-called “Filthy Fifteen” – have been declared obscene in America. The designation of a Filthy Fifteen was a part of a backlash marketing campaign … Read more