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REVIEW: <i>Tales from the Hood 2</i>: Like If Spike Lee Made <i>Creepshow</i> (Fantasia Festival)
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...
REVIEW: Slasher Flick <i>Hell Fest</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Slasher Flick Hell Fest

Sep 29th, 2018
The 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...
REVIEW: Kevin Hart Comedy <i>Night School</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Kevin Hart Comedy Night School

Sep 28th, 2018
The 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...
REVIEW: Animated Adventure Comedy <i>Smallfoot</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Animated Adventure Comedy Smallfoot

Sep 28th, 2018
Smallfoot is a light animated adventure set in a remote Himalayan village occupied by yetis, aka Abominable Snowmen (and Snowwomen), who have lived...
Fantastic Fest Review: Violent Drama <i>Hold the Dark</i>
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...
REVIEW: Robert Redford Shines As One of the Title Characters in <i>The Old Man & the Gun</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Robert Redford Shines As One of the Title Characters in The Old Man & the Gun

Sep 28th, 2018
David 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...
Fantastic Fest Review: Unclassifiable Thing <i>Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart</i>
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...
Fantastic Fest Review: French Drama <i>Savage</i>
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...
Fantastic Fest Review: Absurdist Comedy <i>Keep an Eye Out</i>
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...
REVIEW: Junior Horror <i>The House with a Clock in Its Walls</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Junior Horror The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Sep 21st, 2018
Jack 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...
REVIEW: <i>Assassination Nation</i> Fascination Dissipation
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Assassination Nation Fascination Dissipation

Sep 20th, 2018
Assassination Nation, based on the hashtags #woke and #metoo, is an in-your-face, self-consciously edgy satire about a town called Salem that goes...
TIFF Report: Political, Not Polemical
Marshall Shaffer

TIFF Report: Political, Not Polemical

Sep 17th, 2018
I skipped out on the big political event of the Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, a screening...
REVIEW: Be Sure to Catch <i>The Predator</i> If You Like Movies That Are Good Enough But Just Barely
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Be Sure to Catch The Predator If You Like Movies That Are Good Enough But Just Barely

Sep 14th, 2018
Unlike 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...
REVIEW: <i>A Simple Favor</i> Reveals a Complicated Relationship
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: A Simple Favor Reveals a Complicated Relationship

Sep 14th, 2018
Based 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...
REVIEW: Drugs, Guns, and the FBI Screw Up <i>White Boy Rick</i>'s Family
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Drugs, Guns, and the FBI Screw Up White Boy Rick's Family

Sep 13th, 2018
It'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...
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