Opening at IFC Center on March 6th is a fabulously bizarre feminist horror fable by Carlo Mirabella-Davis with a remarkable and heartbreaking performance by Haley Bennett. Haley plays Hunter, the trophy wife of successful businessman Richie (Austin Stowell). They live…
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Opening Friday, Feb. 28th at IFC Center is an eccentric neo-noir set in Niagara Falls about a woman in her 30s- Abby (Tuppence Middleton) who warily returns home when her mother dies to settle accounts with her straight-laced, married sister…
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In Richard Stanley’s brilliant, nightmarish, hallucinatory version of a H. P. Lovecraft story, a meteorite falls from the sky outside Nathan Gardner’s (Nicolas Cage) remote woodland Arkham farmhouse. Gardner lives there with his wife (Joley Richardson), their three children…
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I try not to look back in anger when it comes to films. Fortunately, movies I dislike seem to magically delete in my memory as the year goes on. But there are still some stinkers whose odor lingers on.…
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When you’re watching a movie every once-in-a-while a minor character will just jump off the screen. It’s usually because of how good the actor is at taking a supporting character and breathing originality and fire into the role. Since…
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Quite frankly, I’ll be glad to put 2019 in my rearview mirror. But movies still made life better, as they always do. I loved the last half hour of Joker when it turns into total anarchy. Marriage Story may…
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As a troubled child, Luke created an imaginary friend- Daniel- to befriend and protect him from the emotional trauma of his battling parents. He was forced to lock Daniel away in a dollhouse when their antics took a more…
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Playing at the Quad cinema on October 11th is a 4k restoration of a loony, little-seen 1976 film by Serge Gainsbourg that plays like the ultimate anti-erotic crackpot romance. Set in American, but feeling like it’s unfolding on another…
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In Pedro Almodovar’s exquisite new film, Antonio Banderas plays Salvador Mallo, an acclaimed filmmaker, who, after a series of debilitating health problems, has stopped working. For Salvador, “without filming, my life is meaningless.” A remastering of one of his…
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Director Alexandre O. Philippe uses the same kind of inspired deconstruction he did with the Psycho shower sequence in 78/52– this time the iconic chest-busting scene in Alien. Philippe charts the film’s inception from Dan O’Bannon’s early script, which…
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