1974’s revolutionary, genre-defining horror masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has inspired a small army of follow-ups and remakes and prequels, but shockingly, it’s taken 39 years for it to finally kick off a film that takes place in what is demonstrably and purposefully the exact same continuity, the confusingly-titled Texas Chainsaw 3D, though of course, […]
Writer-director Sarah Polley’s Away from Her was one of the very finest feature debuts of the 2000s, the sort of brilliant that makes it virtually impossible not to eagerly await everything she ever does in the future. Even when her follow-up is such a sophomore movie: not that Take This Waltz is at all a […]
Such a nice long break we’ve had, away from the foetid world of Disney direct-to-video sequels; plenty of time to ponder with increasing desperation the return of the series with one of the darkest moments in the whole vile history of the things. I refer to Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, which was dumped on […]
In all of movie history, Victor Hugo’s 1862 goliath of a novel Les Misérables has been filmed more times than any other single work of literature by a writer not named Charles Dickens or William Shakespeare; shockingly, only twice was that filming done in Hollywood, where prestigious, dour literature goes to be tricked out with […]
Andrey Zyagintsev’s 2003 The Return is one of the great lost films of the 2000s, a masterpiece that nobody ever talks about, and it was reason all by itself to be excited for the director’s newest film, Elena (he made one feature in between the two, The Banishment, which I don’t believe received U.S. distribution). […]
The Year of Blood comes to its glorious close at a time of rebirth and new promises: a time of resolving to be a better, more fulfilled person, and to do a better job hiding the bodies in the year to come. Happy New Year everyone, and thanks for coming along! Oh my god, guys, […]
It’s more than debatable that It’s Such a Beautiful Day is really a 2012 film at all: it is an anthology film of sorts, stitched invisibly together from three films that independent animator Don Hertzfeldt has made over the last six years: 2006’s Everything Will Be OK, 2008’s I Am So Proud of You, and […]
