Freaky (2020)
“They traded places.” We’ve all seen high school slashers and we’ve all seen body swap comedies, but never before have I personally seen the two fused together at the hip […]
Tag Archives: Thriller
Let Him Go (2020)
“I won’t be coming back here without him.” When it comes to this stodgy yet sturdy film adaptation of Let Him Go, seemingly suffering from dissociative identity disorder, there’s something […]
His House (2020)
“We don’t belong here.” The undisputed best scary movie of 2020 – and one of the best pictures in these temultuous times – is His House, a phycological thriller fueled […]
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
“This is a political trial.” Intermittently resonant and admittedly timely, there remains a genuine hollowness to The Trial of the Chicago 7 that I cannot shake. The film is a […]
Tenet (2020)
“Don’t try to understand it…feel it.” Pure Spectacle. That’s all Tenet amounts to, really. And I’m not sure there’s a shorter or more appropriate way of describing Christopher Nolan’s latest […]
The Tax Collector (2020)
“I heard you’re the Devil.” Bringing the same level of self-seriousness and false intimidation as a wannabe gangster sporting a nylon sleeve and a temporary tear drop tattoo to a […]
The Rental (2020)
“I want it now.” The Rental, while fairly basic in plot but sporting a surprisingly sinister tone, seems to be part of the ever evolving home invasion horror genre. We’ve […]
7500 (2020)
“Nice airplane. Two wings, two engines.” There’s an immediacy to the filmmaking on display throughout 7500 which makes up for the fractured picture’s intentionally muted storytelling, at least long enough […]
Extraction (2020)
“More like a thing than a person.” Perhaps unintentionally, Extraction succeeds as the epitome and the progeny of a first person video game brought to life, even more so than most […]
The Platform (2020)
“Hunger unleashes the madman in us.” More conceptually intriguing than it is satisfying by the nondescript end, The Platform nevertheless confronts its position on systemic injustice through sci-fi satire, pointing […]
