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[SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024]: ‘THE RIDE AHEAD’ AND RADICAL OPTIMISM FOR THE FUTURE
Underestimation is an all too common fact of life while disabled. If your disability is physically apparent, your ability to function is questioned or diminished altogether. People will come up to you and tell you things like they would rather die than live in your body. They’ll talk down to…
‘GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE’ IS A SATURDAY-MORNING DAYDREAM FOR THE BIG SCREEN
Crossovers often feel like the final frontier for franchise filmmaking, the place where long-running series go when they’ve been everywhere else, including outer space in some cases. But what comes after the crossover? It’s a question that’s rarely been seriously posed, much less answered — usually, it involves…
‘CHIEF OF STATION’ IS SATISFYING ACTION FILMMAKING FROM AN UNDERRATED MASTER
In pursuit of spectacle, franchise filmmaking has carved up the moviegoing experience into something less than its constituent parts. A weekend trip to the cineplex promises a world of perpetual middle chapters of serials. Heroes that will never rest and villains that will never be defeated because…
A REAL ESTATE AGENT TRIES TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE IN ‘FOR SALE’
Mason McGuinness is the epitome of a slick salesman, skilled at selling anything and everything — except perhaps his own integrity. After losing his job and his wife due to his deceptive ways, Mason’s downward spiral leads him to a peculiar real estate opportunity: selling the notorious Scarlett Clay…
‘FOUNDERS DAY’ IS FURTHER EVIDENCE OF A SLASHER RENAISSANCE
If you’re a slasher fan, you’ve been eating good the last few years. From trusty IPs like HALLOWEEN to adaptations of books (FEAR STREET) to such original properties as THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE, there has been no shortage of slashers to satiate our collective bloodlust. While slashers…
MA DONG-SEOK IS VIOLENTLY HILARIOUS IN ‘THE ROUNDUP: NO WAY OUT’
Crime action films today can often, despite what the genre might suggest, leave the viewer inexplicably searching for more. Overused actors, villains with vague intensions, and overplayed tropes often result in films with predictable twists and forgettable plots. Ma Dong-seok (TRAIN TO BUSAN, ETERNALS, ASHFALL) returns for another knockout…
[PANIC FEST 2024]: ‘ALL ALONE TOGETHER’ IS A TENSE LOOK INTO CREATIVE PRESSURES
Any form of artistic creation is an inherently immersive and sacrificial act. Particularly when creating something wholly new, we must dig deep to find the seeds of the world within ourselves and bring to light some dark and squirming realities we may not have faced before. To create is…
[DAILY GRINDHOUSE INTERVIEWS]: DIRECTOR AND CAST OF ‘DAD & STEP-DAD’
On the heels of his review of the film DAD & STEP-DAD, Daily Grindhouse new blood and cohost of Butcher Bordello of Blood podcast, Zach Butcher, sat down with director Tynan DeLong, and the titular Dad (Colin Burgess) and Step-Dad (Anthony Oberbeck) to talk about their creative friendship, the…
‘YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME’: BLEAK, UNRELENTING AUSTRALIAN SLOW BURN
Australia has long been one of my go-to areas for horror that holds no punches. It’s one of my most obvious touchpoints for notable differences in permissibility and tolerance between American filmmaking and that from other countries. As it stands, Australia and Korea are my two most commonly referenced…
[SXSW 2024]: ‘ODDITY’: A MASTERFULLY TENSE HAUNTED RETURN FOR DAMIAN MC CARTHY
Hyperbole can be difficult to avoid when writing movie reviews, especially during the rush and excitement of a film festival, so it’s important to stay grounded and keep a sense of perspective. Not everything is a masterpiece. Unless you only watched one movie, every film can’t be the best…
[SXSW 2024]: ‘FAMILY’: A HAUNTING EXAMINATION OF ILLNESS AND TRAUMA
Inspired by the childhood trauma of his father’s cancer, director Benjamin Finkel spent half his life channeling his real-life horror experience to make the movie FAMILY. Making its world premiere at SXSW, this film follows the young Johanna (Cameron Dawson Gray) as she struggles to make sense of her…
[IN THEATERS NOW!] IMAGINARY (2024)
In 2010, reigning horror maven Jason Blum was still a fledgling producer in the genre. While his microbudget approach certainly made some waves with the massive success of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY the previous year, his presence in the genre realm wasn’t firmly entrenched until he ushered James Wan’s INSIDIOUS onto…
[SXSW 2024]: ‘I LOVE YOU FOREVER’: A TENSE EXAMINATION OF THE MANIPULATIVE MODERN DATING SCENE
Manipulation. Gaslighting. Love-bombing. Isolation. All of these terms exist in the popular vernacular as buzzwords to describe toxic relationships. As observers, we can easily see when romance and love lead to abuse, but when experiencing the situation firsthand, the target of the gaslighting might not realize the actual extent…