With LONGLEGS, writer/director Oz Perkins has created an original tale of horror set in the 1990s while staying true to familiar tropes. There’s an unhinged suspect, a series of family slaughters that don’t ring true to a murder/suicide scenario, and a neophyte FBI agent at the center of the case in ways she didn’t see… Read More »
FULL FRONTAL
Some films expand your horizons, some shift your paradigm, some make your spirit soar with the possibilities inherent in the human condition and some are so awful that they make you question the existence of God. That last would apply to the 109 minutes of my life wasted at Steven Soderbergh’s latest, FULL FRONTAL.The question… Read More »
THE EVENT
If the NBC series THE EVENT is as good as the NBC pilot for THE EVENT is, we are in for another infuriatingly, invigoratingly, tantalizingly wonderful national cult obsession. While no one walks into a jet intake, a la Lost, which is one its spiritual, if not literal, influences, there are secret bases and unexplained… Read More »