Vivarium (2020)
“That’s just the way things are.” From the telling opening sequence until the depressing finale, Vivarium makes a distinct point of reading then showing the complex, parasitic fine print details […]
“That’s just the way things are.” From the telling opening sequence until the depressing finale, Vivarium makes a distinct point of reading then showing the complex, parasitic fine print details […]
“He makes me feel like I’m the crazy one.” Famed novelist H.G. Wells’ 1897 classic piece of horror science fiction has once again been ushered into modernity, altering the dated […]
“Made a crazy risk – a gamble – and it’s about to pay off.” Few films from 2019 had a more meaningful or memorable opening sequence than the anxiety inducing […]
“I must accept the fact I never really knew you. Nor am I you.” It’s rather remarkable that, in a time littered with small budget dramas and endless high-top tent […]
“It’s just a weird family ritual.” Class warfare, outdated family traditions, and holy matrimony literally duke it out in Ready or Not, a bloody fun and uneven attempt at satire […]
“You let a ghost story get into your heads.” It’s hard to not appreciate Alvin Schwartz’s collection of short horror stories tailored to terrify school kids checking out library books […]
“If you tell her it smells like fish, she smells like fish.” It’s strange. I’ve literally sat through Luz’s dense 70 minutes three times. Twice concurrently and once more as […]
“He can feel us watching.” It’s an interesting choice for a thriller to open up in a state of calm, giving us a sense of stability before everything goes topsy-turvy. Disturbia […]
“It’s like another world.” Midsommar opens with a shot which summarizes the entire story in a four-paneled tableaux of Pagan paintings. In a modern sense, it’s like vague GPS directions […]
“I know all the answers, I just freeze under pressure.” Let me start by saying that Murder Mystery is, for the most part, as run-of-the-mill as its factory-farmed, plug and play […]