Living in a small town can be a drag as it feels like Groundhog Day. Everybody knows everyone, and there’s probably an expectation of the community synchronizing their schedules for particular events and specific times. How dare you skip the Friday night football game or the Sunday morning church service? Traditions are present in the […]
October 12, 2023
One of the most harrowing things about Martin Scorsese’s latest three-hour-and-twenty-plus minute epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, is the changes within the physical makeup of the 1920s Osage community in northeastern Oklahoma – a subtle warning to the bluntness of the actions of the outsides that take place. As more Osage members are murdered, […]
October 12, 2023
The first three episodes of American Horror Story: Delicate put much into play in the creepy world of budding actress and presumably expectant mother Anna Victoria Alcott. She has a husband who doesn’t seem exactly the most trustworthy. A publicist she confides in as a friend, but is also full steam ahead with her career […]
October 12, 2023
This review is a part of DraftKings Network’s 2023 Fantastic Fest coverage. Possession films are a dark piece of business as is. The mere thought of some evil entity being able to take over somebody’s physical and mental state to act as a totem to inflict harm has been driving the nightmares of horror fans […]
October 10, 2023
Few things in the world compare to the love that a mother has for their child. The world inside Netflix’s Spanish survival thriller, Nowhere, is exceptionally bleak and could use some of that emotion in a society crumbling under a totalitarian regime in Spain. Food and shelter are scarce, and people are rounded up and […]
October 4, 2023
Two things are certain within the Saw franchise. If a character is on the receiving end of Charlie Clouser’s classic variation of the “Hello Zepp” theme, things will go south for them. The second is that even though John Kramer (Tobin Bell), known as Jigsaw, is on his deathbed, he intends to dishing out his […]
October 4, 2023
Becoming a mother is already challenging, besides worrying about budding stardom, a potentially shady husband, and weird women following your every move. Nothing feels like a storybook in Anna Alcott’s world. She cannot fully enjoy a possible award run after a runaway indie hit because, frankly, there is too much tugging at her sanity. The […]
September 28, 2023
Can humans and technology exist together coherently? It’s a question the sci-fi genre has examined through many stories and decades, and honestly, the results don’t seem all too great. Humans are imperfect, and when we create things like A. I or robots, we expect them to be of service to us. However, we ignore that […]
September 28, 2023
This review is published as part of DraftKings Network’s 2023 New York Film Festival coverage. Of all the small towns, he had to come into mine. This is precisely the train of thought Jake (Ethan Hawke), sheriff of Bitter Creek, thought when he saw Silva (Pedro Pascal) roll into town in Pedro Almodovar’s 30-minute queer […]
September 27, 2023
This review is published as part of DraftKings Network’s 2023 New York Film Festival coverage. When we think of the word evil, it’s more in an active sense—the action of someone having the forethought to do something cruel to someone else. This could be physical, mental, or emotional. Isn’t it just as horrible for people […]
September 27, 2023
In the premiere episode from “Multiply Thy Pain,” the first episode from American Horror Story’s 12th season, Delicate cites the Genesis 3:16 bible verse when God cursed Eve after she ate an apple from the Tree of the Knowledge. Parents (hopefully) experience great joy and delight once a child is born, but the process women […]
September 21, 2023