Andy Crump
2021 Is the Year of Adam Driver
2020 was a year without Adam Driver. So 2021 has made up for the privation with Adam Driver times three: Leos Carax’s Annette, Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, and because 2020 was also a year without Ridley Scott, Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci. (20th Century Studios originally had The Last…
The 8 Best Movies You May Have Missed This Year
We're fast approaching the end of the year. And that means studios are flooding theaters (and, if they bother, streaming services) with movies that they want to convince you are must-sees. Some of them probably are. If you’re any kind of moviegoer, you’ll probably check them out. But as studios…
The Best Film Noir for Noirvember
November is a time for turkey and growing facial hair. It’s a time for gratitude. It’s a time for sitting in the shadows with a handful of film noirs. You know those shadowy, cynical, effortlessly cool crime thrillers that proliferated throughout the 1940s and were fundamental to the movies’ development…
Bradley Cooper Displeases The Right People In “Nightmare Alley” Trailer
"Lots of remakes aren't good," you say? Well, lots of movies aren't good. So there. But Nightmare Alley is a good movie. And Guillermo del Toro only makes good movies. So that's two reasons for optimism about Searchlight's forthcoming remake of Edmund Goulding's ol' noir masterpiece. The other reasons - like…
Misfits’ Walk Among Us Is the Best Halloween Album
Pour one out for Halloween 2020. COVID and bad weather left the spookiest night of the year on the bench last October. Lonesome jack-o’-lanterns sat unadmired by trick-or-treaters, costumes stayed on hangers, and parties were canceled at the last minute under the strain of unseasonable precipitation and the threat of…
5 Non-Horror Directors Who Should Make a Horror Movie
If there’s a better sign of horror’s vitality, popularity, and open-endedness in 2021 than David Gordon Green’s resuscitation of the Halloween series, then we haven’t seen it yet. Green got his start directing independent dramas like George Washington and All the Real Girls, taking occasional pit stops for the odd…
The Best Halloween Horror Movies to Stream Right Now
Halloween is right around the corner. Last year, the spookiest of holidays was canceled due to COVID and godawful weather, which makes Halloween ‘21 a chance at redemption and a reason to double down on celebrating the season. Costumes. Decorations. Jack-o’-lanterns. Way too much candy. Scary movies. Not everyone likes…
“Benedetta” Trailer: The Power Of Christ Titillates You
Paul Verhoeven has spent his career satirizing American action films in Robocop and Total Recall, satirizing military propaganda in Starship Troopers, satirizing nothing at all in Black Book, a film about Jewish spies in World War II, and back to satire with his riff on Europudding movies in 2016's Elle. Now his latest, the nunsploitation…