As we take a closer look at horror this October, some popular genres are apt to be dismissed as mere blood and guts. The zombie genre is one of them. But one of the genre’s original films reveals many more layers.
Category Archives: Movies
Venom
Sometimes I have to break from the consensus – Venom is no Spider-Man 2, but neither is it Catwoman. It is nothing more or less than a fun-but-flawed comic book movie.
Hereditary: Grief, Guilt, and Fear
Grief and depression is something many of us are very familiar with. Hereditary takes the subject and molds it into one of the deepest most haunting horror films of the past decade.
First Reformed
Although utilizing a church setting and speaking of environmentalism, First Reformed is actually about neither of those things.
Christopher Robin
We’re all familiar with the phrase “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.” The same can be said of time. But there’s more than one way to waste time, and time well spent isn’t always what we think it is. Christopher Robin is here to challenge misconceptions about fruitful living; “doing nothing often leads to the very best something.”
Tully
If I were asked to boil the message of Jason Reitman’s Tully down to one sentence, I may say, “Parenting sucks.”
Ocean’s Eight
Although just a shadow of its former self, Ocean’s Eight aims to pick up the franchise where it left off, pursuing a fun heist with an all-female cast. But with a lack of the self-awareness that was sprinkled throughout the franchise’s origins, it comes off a tad hedonistic.