non-illustrated

Screen adaptations are a tricky thing. Popular books, plays, and musicals don’t always convert to the medium of film, and DEAR EVAN HANSEN was one that was going to be tricky, no matter what. The [...]

Usually, horror films are filled with many slow-witted characters. They’re that way to make them easier victims, clueless and unaware of their surroundings, thereby easier to pick off by a ghoul [...]

Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield give incredibly accomplished performances in the new biopic THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE. It’s no mean feat, considering that the characters they are playing – [...]

The mantle of masculinity has always been at the heart of Paul Schrader’s work and his unflinching examination of it has made him one of cinema’s most important filmmakers. He wrote TAXI DRIVER, [...]

Few horror films before or since were as daring as 1992’s CANDYMAN, written and directed by Bernard Rose. In that movie, a young female grad student (Virginia Madsen) investigated an urban legend [...]

Suicide is a world of horror unto its own. For those who commit such an act, the thought of living is too paralyzing for them to bear. For those left behind – the loved ones and friends [...]

The biopic may be the surest Oscar bait for actors, but if the performer misses the mark, the entire enterprise sinks. The new film RESPECT, about the life of Aretha Franklin, showcases star [...]

Leave it to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to keep raising the bar on almost everything they touch. They showed the world how superhero movies should be done in the modern era and built a [...]

Even though we live in ridiculously political times, few filmmakers have the guts to comment on the decline of civilization as blatantly and distinctly as the Taub Brothers (Leandro and Jonathan) [...]

Bettering the first SUICIDE SQUAD movie wasn’t too difficult a task for the talented filmmaker James Gunn. He has improved upon the first film exponentially in every way with his sequel THE [...]