Mindhunter’ launches audience in heads of serial killers
Rating: 4/5 stars In 2012, Netflix’s video streaming was still relatively new and DVD by mail was the lion’s share of the business. A year later, Netflix started creating its own original programming with the first season of “House of…
Blade Runner 2049’ serves as brilliant follow-up to original
Rating: 4.5 / 5 stars It has been 35 years since Ridley Scott’s beloved neo-noir sci-fi classic “Blade Runner” first hit theaters. A critical flop upon first release, it took 25 years and four re-cuts before the film truly cemented…
“A Ghost Story” could have been too experimental for wide-release audiences
Rating: 4 / 5 stars “A Ghost Story” is a slow-paced, reflective, spiritual film about time. It is also a movie whose protagonist is a mute, bedsheet ghost with eyeholes cut out. These two aspects of the film should prove…
Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’ has alienated mainstream audiences
Rating: 4/5 stars Darren Aronofsky’s (“Noah”) allegorical horror film “mother!” is easily the most ambitious, and very likely, the most divisive film seen all year. It is one of those movies that is incredibly hard to synopsize without spoiling the…
AHS: CULT’ breath of fresh air after previously stale seasons
Rating 4.5/5 stars The time leading up to the 2016 presidential election does not need much added to it to make it terrifying. The anthology horror series “American Horror Story” leans into burgeoning political fears for its seventh season, “Cult.”…
Soderbergh rolls dice out of retirement with ‘Logan Lucky’
Rating: 4/5 stars Steven Soderbergh is a master of the heist film as he returns from his short-lived retirement with the wonderfully fun redneck riff on the genre that is “Logan Lucky.” Channing Tatum (“Comrade Detective”) plays Jimmy Logan, an…
