To make a movie like Gentle Monster requires a great deal of sensitivity to the material you’re treating on screen. The subject writer/director Marie Kreutzer is dealing with is incredibly heavy and could easily veer into exploitative territory if you don’t know how to handle such a story. Once the elephant in the room is revealed, Kreutzer can easily go one
Read MoreZachary Wigon’s Sanctuary was one of the most thrilling surprises of 2023, and one that positioned the American filmmaker as one to watch even more, as he made his grand return almost ten years after the release of 2014’s The Heart Machine. His latest effort, Victorian Psycho, itself adapted from Virginia Feito’s novel of the same name, possesses the same aesthetic
Read MoreGodzilla Minus Zero is truly surprising. For most American blockbusters, the Hollywood system seems afraid to slow down and let characters fill the space. Yet, for all of its visual splendor, Godzilla Minus Zero does just that. The sequel to Godzilla Minus One could’ve gone bigger and more explosive, in the vein of most monstrous spectacles like Godzilla versus Kong. And
Read MoreCo-producers Jordan Downey and Kevin Stewart, who contributed to Shudder’s V/H/S/Beyond, have co-written a new movie for the streaming service, The Cycle. Directed by Downey, the horror thriller film follows a forensic anthropologist looking into the death of her estranged father. While Shudder’s promotional trailers don’t reveal too much about the plot, the thrills of this mystery should keep viewers on
Read More‘Twas just a year ago, in 2025, when Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet’s tale of family grief for William Shakespeare triggered the collective outpouring of tears amongst cinema audiences. Now Andrew Scott is threatening to evoke similar reactions with his tour de force, poignant, and powerful performance in Elsinore. Andrew Scott plays Ian Charleson, a real-life theatre actor performing as Hamlet, in the
Read MoreThe budget of Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana: Rise of a Legend is ridiculous. The budget is as high as $500 million in American money, which is extreme given how risk-averse Hollywood has gotten. In India, it’s already the country’s most expensive movie. The two-part epic has imported top-tier Western talent to bring Valmiki’s poem to life—a vision as ambitious as Peter Jackson’s
Read MoreBy now, it’s tradition: whenever Yeon Sang-ho does something truly great, he immediately follows it with something so unwatchable you might question why you appreciated the filmmaker in the first place. This was the case between Revelations and The Ugly, and we’re seeing the same pattern again a year later, from Colony to Paradise Lost. While not as egregious as The
Read MoreThere are still so many Game Boy classic games I wish Nintendo would put on the Classics line on the Switch and Switch 2. Pokémon Pinball, Dragon Warrior Monsters, and Final Fantasy Adventure, just to name a few. That goes for all catalogs in the Classics library, from the NES to the GameCube. It seems when one is announced, the fanfare
Read MoreWildwood is an extremely mystifying experience. For most of the runtime, Laika Studios kept me in a constant state of questioning. Not in terms of plot or character beats, but in how exactly any of this is possible. As a studio, Laika has always been in a league of its own, creating exceptional visual masterworks in stop-motion animation. However, their 2026
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