Bagman As its title suggests a connection, “Bagman” certainly has no relation to Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz’s popular book, which outlined the various crimes of Spiro Agnew. Officially a movie written by John Hulme, it seems more like a screenplay derived from one of those short stories that Stephen King forgets about when looking […]
Amber Alert In 2012, there was a movie called “Amber Alert” , which can be categorized as a “found footage” type. The concept was captivating but the execution was quite messy (typical of found footage films). A group of children hears an amber alert and sees a car on the interstate. They pursue the car
The Universal Theory Timm Kröger’s film “The Universal Theory,” a German-origin metaphysical riddle, is centered around a young physicist who goes to the Swiss Alps to attend a scientific conference on quantum mechanics but gets embroiled in a mess of paranoia, conspiracy and murder instead. Coming back to the mountainous landscape of Kröger’s first feature
Sleep Korean psychological chiller “Sleep” could have easily gone off in tone becoming a regular horror comedy at any moment. In fact, it is a polished and rather disturbing marital tale in which one of the partners is a chronic sleepwalker, and the other is constantly anxious about it, hence it is a paranoid thriller
I, The Executioner Nine years after the box office triumph of the now very enjoyable ‘Veteran’ streaming on Netflix if you have not caught up Ryoo Seung-wan is now back with a sequel to his action-comedy that does not entirely take this world of cop chaos seriously like the first and yet is still as
Penelope One may feel irritated for a moment in the first couple of episodes of the Netflix original series, “Penelope” since it feels quite self-indulgent in its cuteness. The series, an eight episode tween version of “Into the Wild” which by the way includes a whispered citation of this book late on the series, is
Little Bites The films in the horror genre are becoming less and less appealing as they clearly demonstrate their subject matter rather than letting the viewers piece together what’s left to be understood. There must be some ambiguity to horror, about what it tries to convey, and even its function. What you say gets dry
House of Spoils The Amazon Blumhouse originals simply do not take any risks. The newest one, “House of Spoils,” from the same sophisticated duo behind the disgusting “Blow the Man Down,” is yet another film under this banner that fails to explore its most interesting concepts. It’s coasting along, yet another horror film that has
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies The Thai family drama “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies” is less about a wailing family of schemers who are greedy and unhappy and more composed than one would expect from a film of such themes. Usually, it doesn’t take very long to figure out what drives
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story On May 27, 1995, Christopher Reeve, known as ‘Superman’ from his role in the movie series of Superman, was riding his horses in the Commonwealth Park equestrian center in Culpeper, Virginia, when his horse failed to jump a one meter high W-shaped fence. Reeve fell and broke his first and
