CUCKOO (R) Dir. Tilman Singer Singer’s cinematic fever dream – replete with time loops, bizarre retina reflections in blonde wigs, and Dan Steven’s eerily perfect German – is the other major horror event of the summer Grade (4.0/5.0) Replacement is a strange concept. The act of assigning value, meaning, hierarchy, or otherwise onto something – […]
Between Benoit Blanc and Hercule Poirot, the whodunnit genre has an influx of sequels. Here’s the thing, from True Crime thrillers to murder mysteries, less has almost always proved to be more. Earlier this year, Kenneth Branagh’s forgettable “Death on the Nile” was the epitome of an overproduced film. It
You barely have time to get your bearings before Underwater charges full steam ahead with its anxiety inducing deep sea horror. Relative new Director William Eubank and his screenwriters, Brian Duffield (Insurgent) and Adam Cozad (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) borrow heavily from institutional horror and science fiction films. Rarely does Underwater showcase original thinking or