Annabelle: Creation (2017)
“Forgive me Father, for I’m about to sin.” There’s no question that director David F. Sandberg knows what the hell he is doing. With last year’s fantastic Lights Out and now with Annabelle: […]
Category Archives: Mystery
Atomic Blonde (2017)
“Trust no one.” While not outright ditzy or dumb or as cool as it thinks itself to be, Atomic Blonde is a whole lot more boring of a film than its […]
It Comes at Night (2017)
“Do you have any idea what’s going on out there?” It Comes at Night drills itself into your psyche with a rusty, diseased tip, unfolding in the likeness of a great Shakespearean […]
The Discovery (2017)
“Reality and fantasy are mutually exclusive.” The Discovery poses an utterly fascinating question to its audience: What would you do if you knew an afterlife existed? In this bleak and dreary […]
Before I Fall (2017)
“So much time you can bathe in it. So much time you can waste it.” The real shocking thing about Before I Fall is that unlike most movies and dissimilar from most people, […]
Get Out (2017)
“Black is in fashion.” After a shower and a neck-nicking shave while Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” plays in the background, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) welcomes his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) into his […]
The Handmaiden (2016)
“What does a man really want?” I specifically remember spending a California Christmas at my grandparents’ apartment as a young boy. Walking through the courtyard, tossing pennies into the fountain, […]
Arrival (2016)
“We are so bound by time. By its order.” I was recently recommended a podcast called The Ezra Klein Show. Klein’s a liberal journalist and the editor-in-chief at Vox. Klein, […]
The Girl on the Train (2016)
“We were the saddest people we knew.” The abundant stories in The Girl on the Train are the products of pretty people who get bored too easily. Their lives look well-manicured, but the […]
Morgan (2016)
“Morgan is no longer viable.” How to describe Morgan? I could say any number of things. Flippantly shallow, hysterically self-serious, a distasteful mix of pea-brained and moronic ideas. And that’s just the […]
