In many ways, home invasion is one of the most outdated horror genres, since it presumes a world where private property, and ownership of the types of houses that pass for [...]
Adam Sandler had one real shot at playing an adult in Big Daddy and it must have exhausted him, since he doubled down with the most infantile film of his entire career with [...]
Synchronic is the latest from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, and it’s a strange fever dream of a film. We start with a couple taking a drug that appears to transport [...]
Late last year, Forbes published an article that attempted to assess the scariest movies ever made on the basis of resting and elevated heart rates. Out of all the major [...]
Even though it doesn’t star Adam Sandler, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was the first film released by Sandler’s Happy Madison production company, which has endured right up [...]
Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is a semi-autobiographical account of his experience growing up as the child of first-generation Korean immigrant farmers in rural Arkansas in the [...]
Thomas Vinterberg has spent much of the past decade looking awry at his roots in the Dogme 95 movement. While his films have strayed from Dogme more than ever before, [...]
Big Daddy marked a number of firsts in Adam Sandler’s career – the first film where he really played an adult, the first father-son drama, the first film set in an urban [...]
By the time it reached streaming screens in 2021, The Empty Man was so buried that it might as well have never existed. Although filming wrapped in 2017, 21st Century Fox [...]
Even tighter and tauter than Mean Streets, Taxi Driver remains Martin Scorsese’s definitive statement – the vision of urbanity, masculinity and New York identity that [...]