Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Tales from the Hood 2: Like If Spike Lee Made Creepshow (Fantasia Festival) Oct 2nd, 2018(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; now available on VOD and Blu-ray.) I never saw Tales from the Hood, but if Tales from the Hood 2 is any...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Slasher Flick Hell Fest Sep 29th, 2018The rare slasher film that's not a sequel to or remake of a previous one, Hell Fest exploits the premise of a traveling Halloween carnival being...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Kevin Hart Comedy Night School Sep 28th, 2018The premise of Night School, an overlong, under-funny comedy starring Kevin Hart, is that a 35-year-old high school dropout named Teddy Walker has to...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Animated Adventure Comedy Smallfoot Sep 28th, 2018Smallfoot is a light animated adventure set in a remote Himalayan village occupied by yetis, aka Abominable Snowmen (and Snowwomen), who have lived...
Eric D. Snider Fantastic Fest Review: Violent Drama Hold the Dark Sep 28th, 2018(Screened at Fantastic Fest; now streaming on Netflix) Continuing the Wind River cycle of movies about outsiders going to cold, sad Indian...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Robert Redford Shines As One of the Title Characters in The Old Man & the Gun Sep 28th, 2018David Lowery's last movie, A Ghost Story, was about a ghost but wasn't a horror film. His new one, The Old Man & the Gun, is about a career bank...
Eric D. Snider Fantastic Fest Review: Unclassifiable Thing Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart Sep 26th, 2018(Screened at Fantastic Fest; U.S. release TBA) We have Velvet Underground to thank for the title Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart, but...
Eric D. Snider Fantastic Fest Review: French Drama Savage Sep 26th, 2018(Screened at Fantastic Fest; U.S. release TBA; opens in France in January) Coming-of-age metaphors collide messily in Savage (Les Fauves), a...
Eric D. Snider Fantastic Fest Review: Absurdist Comedy Keep an Eye Out Sep 24th, 2018(On VOD.) Keep an Eye Out is the latest absurdist lark from Quentin Dupieux, whose Rubber -- about a series of murders committed by a sentient...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Junior Horror The House with a Clock in Its Walls Sep 21st, 2018Jack Black opted out of the Goosebumps sequel in order to make The House with a Clock in Its Walls, which is basically a Goosebumps movie but based...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Assassination Nation Fascination Dissipation Sep 20th, 2018Assassination Nation, based on the hashtags #woke and #metoo, is an in-your-face, self-consciously edgy satire about a town called Salem that goes...
Marshall Shaffer TIFF Report: Political, Not Polemical Sep 17th, 2018I skipped out on the big political event of the Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, a screening...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Be Sure to Catch The Predator If You Like Movies That Are Good Enough But Just Barely Sep 14th, 2018Unlike the late entries in some horror franchises, The Predator doesn't pretend any of its predecessors didn't happen, but you don't need to have...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: A Simple Favor Reveals a Complicated Relationship Sep 14th, 2018Based on Darcey Bell's novel, which must have been inspired by Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, A Simple Favor is a funny, dark-edged, lurid...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Drugs, Guns, and the FBI Screw Up White Boy Rick's Family Sep 13th, 2018It's unlikely (I hope) that the Wershe family of Detroit will remind you of your own clan. As portrayed in White Boy Rick, a compelling if familiar...