Originally published on Facebook 27 March 2017. I value great horror fiction as much as I value great science fiction, and in some ways even more, in large part because it functions as science fiction’s reciprocal complement. The subject, at core, is humanity. Horror diagnoses the problem. At its best, science fiction provides the prescription. […]
Last’s night’s sleazy little b-movie you would expect to have a no-name cast but which oddly doesn’t on Netflix Streaming: BULLET HEAD (2017). A trio of unarmed safecrackers on the run from a citywide manhunt hole up in a labyrinthine and decaying warehouse, only to find themselves being hunted by that warehouse’s other resident: a […]
The backlash against THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MO may have cost it the Best Picture Oscar. It’s hard to judge such things. It didn’t cost the film a couple of well-deserved acting nods, but it didn’t help. The one thing I want to tell folks who have read the film spectacularly wrong is that it’s […]