Scary monsters and super creeps
I have been fascinated by monsters from an early age. I can’t remember when it started, but at some point during my childhood, I began to think that vampires, phantoms (specifically, the Phantom of...
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In defence of the bonkers Naked Attraction
I’m not a huge fan of dating shows on TV and, when Channel 4’s Naked Attraction launched, it sounded kind of awful. The premise is this: a fully dressed person who wants a partner is presented...
“No One Saw a Thing” on SundanceTV
Avi Belkin, the director and executive producer behind SundanceTV’s (currently streaming) true crime series No One Saw a Thing, has described his six-part look at a nearly four-decade-old cold...
Zombie Tidal Wave surprisingly excellent successor to the Sharknado throne
I watched Zombie Tidal Wave this weekend fully expecting to hate on it. The sleepy reception of Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die has struck the point home that zombie films are real life dead;...
Review: Netflix’s “The Family”
Jesse Moss’s docu-series, The Family, was executive produced by Alex Gibney, who likewise produced the Netflix series Dirty Money, which included an episode helmed by Moss (The Overnighters)....
Review: Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut
There is a point in Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut when soldier-assassin, Capt. Willard emerges from Col. Kurtz’s compound, shrouded in black, hair like an oil slick, eyes blazing with Nietzschean...
Biopics give us something to hope for
Cast your eye over the films released in the past few years and those slated to come out in the near future and you'll notice a trend. Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman, Judy—these films aren't...
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
“Living is an adventure and a challenge…If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.” Opening with the words of the great jazz musician himself, the tone is set for Stanley...
Strangers With Candy is Still Ridiculous (and Relevant) at 20
Comedy Central’s riotously weird series Strangers With Candy—which lasted for three seasons, until it was cancelled in favor of a show called Strip Mall—turns 20 this year. As a millennial,...
Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a gonzo journey you don’t want to miss
Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld, which debuted at Park City back in January, is a cinematic reinvestigation of the mysterious 1961 plane crash that took the life of United Nations...