undertone: Hear the Fear
You knew this was coming: a horror movie about making a podcast. Horror movies do rely on sound more than most other genres, and...
Oscar’s Gold
The Academy Awards are being held later than usual this year because of the Winter Olympics, and this has likely contributed to some actual...
Bride: Mismatched Parts
Good grief, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is a trainwreck. It’s the sort of disaster that only male directors used to be allowed to make:...
Hoppers: Be the Beaver
With the release of Hoppers, this young year has already seen two animated films that are better sequels to Zootopia than Zootopia 2. The...
Pillion: Harry Melling and the Hot Biker Guy
Well, well. If you’d come up to me during the run of Harry Potter movies and asked me which of the kid actors outside...
How to Make a Killing: Bad Relations
I’m about to drop some film history on you, so brace yourself. In 1949, the British director Robert Hamer made a black-comedy masterpiece called...
Hot Wuther
Do we need another film of Wuthering Heights? The great William Wyler turned it into an imposing movie in 1939. In 2012, Andrea Arnold...
Moment: Sorry, Charli
I don’t know enough about the music of Charlotte Aitchison a.k.a. Charli xcx to call myself a fan, though I’ve tended to admire the...
Secret Agent: Moura Than Usual
The Secret Agent missed out on a Best Picture Oscar nomination last week, though it still has a chance to win the Best International...
Send Help: Girlboss
I didn’t know that I needed the feral, unhinged, blood-soaked version of Rachel McAdams in my life, but I did. That’s the one who...
