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CRUMB CATCHER Trailer: A Maniacal Inventor Overstays His Welcome in Cringe Horror Comedy
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Writer-director Chris Skotchdopole puts a new spin on the home invasion thriller in his feature debut, Crumb Catcher. The film centers on a married couple whose newlywed bliss is interrupted when they are held captive in a remote lake house...
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‘A Family Affair’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Put on a Nora Ephron Karaoke Act
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
Ultimately, Richard LaGravenese’s rom-com is a little too packed with soul-searching speeches. The post ‘A Family Affair’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Put on a Nora Ephron Karaoke Act appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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KINDS OF KINDNESS Review: Everybody’s Looking For Something
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Everybody’s looking for something in Kinds of Kindness, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest attempt to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Three tales of lost souls on a desperate search for meaning and wholeness take the audience on a wild...
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CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(Check out Chris Reed’s Chronicles of a Wandering Saint movie review, the film startsits theater rollout Friday, June 28. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Death may be no cause for joy, but sometimes the absurdities...
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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o Goes on an Existential Search for Pizza
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
It’s in the very real, diseased specter of death itself that the film finds its true power. The post ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o Goes on an Existential Search for Pizza appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Music | Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End There’s little use clinging to the description of Angela Schanelec’s latest film Music as being ‘freely adapted from the myth of Oedipus’ as the only players truly blinded are...
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Harmony Korine Resurrects The Trap as Anime Feature and Sets Up Motion-Capture Comedy
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Harmony Korine scholars no doubt mourn The Trap, a revenge thriller he once called his “most ambitious project” and which would’ve starred Benicio Del Toro, Robert Pattinson, Al Pacino, Idris Elba, and James Franco. He clearly hasn’t forgotten: nearly a...
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The Hard Way, Or My Way? RIP Bill Cobbs (1934-2024)
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Bill Cobbs walks into a fictional inn in fictional Llanview, Pennsylvania. He’s playing a building inspector on an undistinguished episode of the undistinguished soap opera “One Life To Live.” The show has several guest stars in that episode, including Jason...
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: QUERELLE
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Jonathan Marlow takes a journey with...
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Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on The Devil’s Bath, Unhomely Houses, Depression, and Empathy
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
It’s rare for a festival like the Berlinale to allow a genre film in its main competition, and this year it was Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s third feature, The Devil’s Bath, that stood out. The period horror film is...
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