Terence Minerbrook

A terrible loss writhes just under the skin of this film. A ritualistic shock-horror film about family, we might be challenged to ruminate on grief, incompetence and systems. Oscars all around, those Aussies are at it again.

"One of us! One of us!" "Freaks" takes two narrative threads and knits them into 62 minutes of avarice, love and retribution. It has a timeless quality, with an ending that feels like a dark, off-putting magic trick. Very much a classic, I used to hear "Freaks" touted as one of Grand-Dames of the horror-thriller genre.

This is about about male loneliness. It's about a man who lies, but wants admiration, respect and trust. I took the wife to see it. I thought it was more difficult than comedy.

Put "The Avengers" and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" into a blender with some Marvel demi-villains and another thing that makes people dissappear into dust. Gloss it up with Julia-Louis Dreyfus and Wendell Pierce trading barbs and treacheries, and a group of actors who...idk, they all have constant, likeable, relatable energy except for that one guy who is more like, a variable? Empty, kinda-sorta? There are some cool moments; One feels they are discovering something new, experiencing flow, witnessing divine intervention, but you know, then they force this rehashed stuff, obscure plot points, face-swaps, bleh!, you lose two points!

Longlegs is a film about an FBI agent whose intuition is tested as she investigates the titular killer( a satanic ne'er-do-well whose Zodiac-style ciphers have befuddled the FBI for decades) and her own memory, as the seam between her own life and the investigation begins to unravel. This movie has a few things going for it, and certainly deserves regard, but its hooks failed to pierce this humble reviewers keratinized flesh. I cannot call it a thriller or horror, but a simmering mix of both. It lacked the nitty-gritty detail of a procedural FBI investigation and wanted the pacing of Fincher or Demme. Its effigies, ominous matriarch and attempts at conjuring up Lucifer fascinated me but did not fear me, not enough to demand a resolution to its unanswered questions, of which there were many.

A devoted, if fallible father reunites his gang and puts it all on the line to win his daughter back. This movie manages to tap the joy and heartache of adventuring companions without all the convoluted staging and monochromatic moralizing of modern fantasy movies. Each actor shines brightly in their roles, from Hugh Grant's amoral rogue to Rege-Jean Page's holier-than-thou paladin. Go gently, for you too will wonder when Jarnathan is arriving.

A young woman leaves her mentor behind, inspired to discover her identity with a fearless drifter. If T.Chalamet and T.Russel seem like the Dionysian lust of youth, the old man of the movie, as played by Mike Rylance, seems like an Appolonian logician, cautioning our protagonist against excess from the get. Exuding vulnerability, concern and menace in equal portion, M.Rylance's soft-spoken presence is more frightening than any flesh eating that may occur in the film. A road movie, viewers are confronted with changes and scenarios that create conflict between being a frail, feeling human and being a remorseless ghoul. 👍 👍 👍 👍 I liked this play on the coming of age trope. I feel like it's thinking about lgbtq relations of abusive mentorship and the terror older people feel as their lovers outgrow them and move on in a world that sort of hates them. Who knows though! Its a great movie! Chefs kiss!

Penguin is the story of a sociopath and a psychopath who are unleashed on the wreckage of Gotham and the rudderless mob families who are in the way of their ambition. This series is less a superhero drama and more like HBO's latest and best attempt at a crime series. Farrell's turn as the titular villain began in Matt Reeve's Batman. A welcome surprise, Farrell deflected Pattinsons over- serious 'Vengeance' as a charming grotesque. Did the performance create the series, or did Matt Reeves want a story to set the tone of the second part of his Bat-Trilogy? Who knows, Farrell is damned good all around, as are a bunch of other great actors you have likely seen and heard before. It's a good show if you like the Crime genre and it only rates 4 stars because the Sopranos and the Wire and hell, Breaking Bad, are obvious 5s.

In a world where every serial killer is into Anatomy and Fine Arts crafts, a team of investigators team up with Dr. Hannibal Lecter and a profiler, Will Graham. A gussied-up CSI with lots of star power and heavily staged cadavers.

The black sheep of a family of Polish cops is forced to choose between the people he loves and the people he is related to. This is a hard-boiled cops and robbers movie with some of my fave performances from a well-tuned troupe of character actors. It may possess one of the greatest chases ever made.