Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is the latest feature from Romanian filmmaker and Berlin Film Festival regular Radu Jude. With an outlandish premise and formal absurdities to match its eye-catching title, it’s a film that is constantly engaging in…
Welcome to Horrorscope, a monthly column keeping horror nerds and initiates up to date on all the genre content coming to and leaving from your favorite streaming services. Here’s a guide to all the essential horror streaming in March 2021.…
Farmer Kristyn Leach wants to talk about her delicious harvest from last year. “Progress is good,” she tells me. As it happens, that’s a huge understatement. Kitazawa Seed Company, the retailer that sells Leach’s heirloom seed varieties, reports that sales…
One of the first sounds you hear in Jurgis Matuelevičius‘ Isaac is the Wilhelm scream. Over the years, the effect – one of the most overused and saturated in the business – has worn out any dramatic stature it may have…
Fans of John Carney‘s work will find much to love in this sweet, poignant tale from Korean director Shim Chang-yang. Like the Irish auteur’s work – specifically Once and Sing Street – Da Capo finds resonance from a bittersweet concept…
Crossing the Streams is a series of columns spotlighting all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month. This time we’re checking out the new Netflix arrivals for March 2021, including new movies from Jennifer Garner, Olga Kurylenko, and…
On Washington State’s Protection Island, Marty Bluewater stands alone. A colony of gulls swoop and squawk around the sandy bluffs where he looks out to the sea, watching tufted puffins bob in the water in search of fish to feed…
Although the year 2020 will almost certainly be remembered mostly for the rise of COVID-19 and the subsequent socio-economic ramifications of that, it was also a year in which the role of police was questioned. The death of George Floyd…
Not even a minute into the new Tom & Jerry movie, I wanted to turn it off. Do not fall for its appearance. It may feature some of the longest lasting icons in all of animation. It may feature my…
A stone’s throw from the Dickie Bird statue, also crafted by local sculptor Graham Ibbeson, is the tribute to the 1866 Oaks colliery disaster. The incident claimed the lives of 361 miners when firedamp caused huge explosions in the shafts.…