“Excelsis Dei” is quite an overt commentary episode. The plot is like a dark version of Cocoon, or Awakenings, as a nurse at a retirement home claims that she has been [...]

All in all, Iron Flag is the catchiest and most satisfying album since the Wu-Tang Clan’s debut. You can hear the confidence right away – it was only released in December [...]

Oz Perkins’ Longlegs has been touted as one of the most terrifying horror films of the last year. I have to admit I was just a little bit underwhelmed though. Perkins draws [...]

Of all the recent efforts to reboot 80s and 90s cinema properties, Twisters is one of the most successful, and really exceeded my own expectations. Written by Mark L. Smith, [...]

By the early 90s, Prince was torn between a desire to make an album-length statement and his inability or unwillingness to let his sound be condensed to just one thing. His [...]

Abigail epitomises everything that I find frustrating about the Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett brand. Their taste for suspenseful horror is so unerring and yet they [...]

Getting Renny Harlin to helm the three-part Strangers reboot was a pretty impressive feat – proof that the producers want this trilogy to succeed. They’ve also [...]

Rebooting the Halloween franchise as a three-film cycle comes with a paradox: John Carpenter only ever intended the Michael Myers narrative to last for two films. With [...]

It would be hard to think of a more iconic or dynamic early 90s collaboration than Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott. Tarantino had just burst onto the scene with Reservoir [...]

Amsterdam is essentially a return to the millennial eccentricity that David O. Russell cemented with I Heart Huckabees. That film was followed by the longest blank period in [...]