There’s little more frustrating, in terms of filmed entertainment, than watching a movie waste the talents of a gifted actor, and The Lazarus Effect burns through no fewer than three people who absolutely shouldn’t have gotten themselves stuck in such a ropey low-budget horror film: Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, and Donald Glover. And we might […]

There’s a level on which Kingsman: The Secret Service is the movie director Matthew Vaughn has always been destined to make. In fact, that is perhaps true of all of its levels, both the good ones and the bad. On the good side of the ledger, Kingsman is one of the most smartly-crafted action films […]

A review requested by Andrew Milne, with thanks for contributing to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. Throughout his career, director Kim Jee-woon has been an unapologetic generic magpie, unified only in that whether he’s making a psycho-thriller like A Tale of Two Sisters, an absurdist Western like The Good, the Bad, the […]

This review is dedicated to Father Chris J., whose dogged persistence in wanting me to review this movie has been incredible – and entirely justified, as I have finally learned. Beyond the Black Rainbow is the sort of film that makes one badly want to start listing out all its apparent influences and the other […]