Tough Films For The Rough Crowd

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

    MIDNIGHTERS had its premiere June 19 at the LA Film Festival     OKJA comes to Netflix June 28.     FOOTNOTES opens in New York July 14.     AMERICA HAS FALLEN premieres on VOD July 4.     BONEJANGLES (featuring Reggie Bannister) comes to VOD July…

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

      Parenthood is something I have avoided like the plague. Not that I wouldn’t die for my nieces and nephews, but the level of responsibility, and sacrifice it takes to raise a child is monumental. My hat goes off to parents, especially single fathers and mothers, who would…

  I say this as a positive: it is very clear that a first-time novelist wrote Our Lady of the Inferno. There is an overabundance of detail given to the early ’80s locations, music, movies, and fashions of the time, as though every last detail discovered through extensive research was…

  Sometimes, the movie gods part the clouds and shine light down upon us. This is one of those moments as news breaks that a complete, undamaged 35mm print of the original Italian cut of Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA has been discovered. The Chicago Cinema Society has obtained the print and…

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

    The body count is always bigger. The death scenes are always much more elaborate, with more blood or gore. Those are the rules for horror movie sequels as set out by the film geek Randy in SCREAM 2. After the success of the first film kicked off the…

  I originally saw DAWN OF THE DEAF at Fantastic Fest 2016. I was blown away by so much of what was done in such a short amount of time. The intricate world building, character development, and clever visual styles all made it a true stand out. Then, in the…

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

Bah weep granah weep nini bong, TransFans!   We’re basically living in a dystopian future, so giant robots fighting in an opera house should be the top-notch entertainment of today. TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST NIGHT is making its U.S. premiere at the Lyric Opera Of Chicago TOMORROW NIGHT June 20th and DAILY…

OKJA, the new film from Bong Joon Ho (SNOWPIERCER, THE HOST) will be screening at the AMC River East 21 this Thursday, June 22 and DAILY GRINDHOUSE wants to send you and a friend. OKJA features An Seo Hyun as Mija, a caretaker to the titular Okja—a massive animal and…

    The usual suspects have the week off as the “Grindhouse Gals” sound off on DC’s WONDER WOMAN! Wendi Freeman of the Double Page Spread podcast, A.V. Club news editor Katie Rife, and Scream Squad podcast host Jamie Righetti sit in for the guys as they discuss the year’s…

  Right off the top of my head: what’s Andy doing wearing a Rolex?   Oh, sure, there are many larger and more important things to ponder after watching part seven of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks 2017/Twin Peaks: The Return/Twin Peaks season three than Harry Goaz’ timepiece, but…

        Noomi Rapace (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) is the perfect choice to play the heroine in this action-packed sci-fi horror film. Her emotive face expresses both her relationship with son and ex-husband in the establishing scenes in the beginning of the film, and then outright…

      Tommy Stovall’s AARON’S BLOOD is a refreshingly unique take on the tired vampire genre. Although it still features enough gore to keep horror genre fans satisfied, at its heart is a strong family relationship as a concerned father wrestles with his hemophiliac son’s transformation into a vampire….

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

    One nice thing about reviewing a new book a couple of days after it comes out rather than a couple of days before is that it gives you a chance to read what others have to say about it before sitting your ass down in front of the keyboard yourself….

    You know that feeling you get reading the final few issues of a book that’s been cancelled? That “these-creators-are-obviously-running-out-the-clock-but-I-guess-I-want-to-see-how-it-all-wraps-up” feeling? Welcome to all of Marvel Comics circa summer 2017 — even the brand-new series.   “Now hold on just a minute,” I hear you say, “this might be a first…

    THE SET-UP is a genre film with style, a sports noir, based on a poem of all things, and directed by the versatile Robert Wise.  Though shot in film noir tradition with film noir themes of steep odds and tragic heroism, THE SET-UP is primarily a sterling example of a boxing picture, and it is a widely-acknowledged…

    There are several great werewolf movies in the horror genre, so I wanted to know what it is about THE HOWLING that makes it stand out from the pack. I spoke to various creative professionals to ask them why this movie means so much to them. Here they…

  June 4: INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place/it flies. falls./] (USA/Canada, dir. Adam & Zack Khalil) Native American tribe the Anishinaabe have an old story called the Seven Fires Prophecy, which predicted the arrival of the white man. Adam and Zack Khalil’s film uses the Seven Fires…

  The Video Recordings Act of 1984 made plenty of waves in the UK and beyond. Consumers of cult and horror media were outraged at the moral outrage, and staunchly defended the films that Mary Whitehouse and the National Viewers and Listeners Association decried for “corrupting our youth.”   The…

      This week on I WAKE UP STREAMING!, I wanted to try doing something different than ranting a bit about streaming philosophies.  Actual recommendations!  Below are five of the most noteworthy and surprising titles that have shown up on streaming this past week – while I may not…