• October 30, 2025
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone sweat in a movie as much as poor Colin Farrell in Ballad of a Small Player. Whether it’s from the constant, shirt-soaking...

• November 18, 2021
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

Going into the theater to see a press screening of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, I had the sudden, very-late-in-the-game realization that I have never actually seen the original beloved 1984 comedy...

• August 19, 2021
• At Home, Horror, Thriller

Beth (Rebecca Hall) is a grieving woman. We meet her, dressed in black, being dropped off at her house by a friend who earnestly hands her a casserole dish....

• March 19, 2017
• At Home, Drama

French director Olivier Assayas and American actress Kristen Stewart are a seemingly unconventional pairing who meld surprisingly well together in their director/actor partnership. Assayas brought out some of Stewart’s...

• July 15, 2016
• At Home, Comedy

Jones aside, director Paul Feig’s simultaneously praised and poo-poo-ed remake of the 1980s classic is a decent, if not overwhelmingly awesome, retelling of a story that’s grown so close...

• June 20, 2014
• At Home, Horror, Television

I’m a sucker for paranormal stories, with creepy unexplained phenomena that goes bump in the night. I may not be religious, but I’m not one to question the spirit...

• March 16, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

I was thirteen when Ghost came out, and I was swiftly caught up in the romance of the movie. I listened to “Unchained Melody” about five thousand times, and...

• February 16, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television, Thriller

As horror goes through its cyclical phases (vampires! witches! plagues!), the theme of zombies keeps returning like the pesky undead that they are. We are used to seeing them...

• July 16, 2013
• At Home, Horror

Director James Wan has made his mark on horror by directing the first Saw movie, which sawed its way to an extremely successful series of torture-porn sequels. More recently,...

• November 21, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Horror, Thriller

You know how sometimes you just want to be alone?  Like after your looney ex-boyfriend accuses you of cheating, tries to drown you in the tub, causes you to...

• October 9, 2011
• At Home, Horror, Thriller

When I tried to remember what went on in Poltergeist II, I could picture a few scenes in my mind, but no story. That didn’t seem right, so I...

• October 28, 2009
• At Home, Horror

In this era of YouTube where anyone and everyone posts home videos of their cats, their kids, their musings on life, etc., it is surprisingly easy to accept a...