REVIEW: The Disaster Artist (2017) dir. James Franco
Like many post-millennial cult movie fans, I have a long, fond history with Tommy Wiseau’s anti-masterpiece The Room. Not being based in…
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) dir. Nicholas Webster
I’ll get it out of the way right of the bat: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is not a very good movie….
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) dir. Rob Reiner
Thirty-three years out from its release, This Is Spinal Tap has become something of an easy film to take for granted. Its…
Scream (1996) dir. Wes Craven
Imagine, for a moment, that you are a producer of horror movies in the mid 1990s. You decide to take an evening…
REVIEW: Lucky (2017) dir. John Carroll Lynch
When Harry Dean Stanton passed away last month at the age of 91, the reaction on my (admittedly film-centric) social media bubble…
The House by the Cemetery (1981) dir. Lucio Fulci
To the casually acquainted– which is to say, fairly well-versed genre fans who have yet to go down his particular alley– Italian…
INTERVIEW: Grrl Haus Cinema’s Anastasia Cazabon
The awful thing about writing about the obstacles women face in any given field– in work, in the arts, in politics, in…
Rolling Thunder (1977) dir. John Flynn
In the piece I wrote for the Coolidge’s twenty-fifth anniversary screening of Reservoir Dogs last month, I included a link to Who…
Band of Outsiders (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
There is a prevailing stereotype among the American public at large about French cinema. The French, the argument goes, are unbearably pretentious,…
Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Herschell Gordon Lewis was pretty strong medicine when he burst onto the scene with 1963’s Blood Feast. America was just a few…
Reservoir Dogs (1992) dir. Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs turns 25 this year. That doesn’t seem right. I wasn’t old enough to remember its initial release, mind you– by…
Super Mario Bros. (1993) dir. Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton
It’s often said that video game movies are uniformly terrible. This is almost true. In fact, there are a handful of video…
