Archives

If you’re looking for an above-average “body horror” frightener, the new film TOGETHER starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco will surely be right up your alley. The story of a couple struggling to [...]

Just when filmgoers started to wonder whether the Marvel Cinematic Universe could find its full footing again after a range of missteps from dreadful film bombs like QUANTUMANIA and MADAME WEB to [...]

I know what you did last summer. But what about 28 years ago? See, a funny thing happened on the way to watching the new sequel to 1997’s I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. (Yes, the newbie has the [...]

Filmmaker James Gunn may be a creative wunderkind and the man who made GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY into a multimillion-dollar franchise, but it’s shocking how so many of his ideas about the Man of [...]

I used to say that the most frightening part of writing Examiner horror movie reviews a decade ago was how so few films were genuinely scary. Despite a genre entry opening almost every weekend, [...]

How does trauma shape us? Does an emotionally wrenching event tighten our lens on the world or help widen it? Does time heal matters or does distance merely push the traumatic event to the [...]

The filmmakers behind the JURASSIC WORLD franchise give up the ghost in the first 10 minutes of this new sequel with the narrative telling us that dinosaurs are now passé in the modern world. It [...]