Being Film #13 for Hooptober 2024 The beautiful thing about The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is how much of a "first film" it is, in the best possible way. The directorial debut of Bomani J. Story, this is a film very much full of ideas, using genre to get at the heart of... Continue Reading →
Being Film #12 for Hooptober 2024 What a beautiful, messy, sloppy charmer of a film. ON the one hand, I can see what both the average movie goer - even the casual Coppola fan - would be put off by Twixt, the maestro's 2011 "return" to horror. I can also see how those fans who... Continue Reading →
Being Film #11 for Hooptober 2024 Boy do I like Patrick Wilson. Guy is a phenomenal performer, handsome to a damn fault, and has made some really brave and interesting choices in his career. He also seems to really love genre, and I love that his passion for this franchise and these characters propelled him... Continue Reading →
Being Film #10 for Hooptober 2024 I'm not going to try and change your mind and say that Insidious: The Last Key is a great movie. The fourth entry in a franchise series is rarely its best. But what I will submit to you is this: by consistently changing up the main baddie (this one... Continue Reading →
Being Film #9 for Hooptober 2024 What do you do when there's no more story to tell? Go back to the beginning, of course, and that's where Leigh Whannell heads for his directorial debut in Insidious: Chapter 3. It's clear from the start where Whannell's heart lies wit regards to his characters, and if that... Continue Reading →
Being Film #8 for Hooptober 2024 Three years later everyone returns to continue the adventures of the Lambert family and their connection to The Further in Insidious: Chapter 2, picking up right where the original left off. It has a gigantic hurdle in figuring out how to stay fresh when you have to out of... Continue Reading →
Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2024 I'm ashamed it took this many years to realize how close the phrase "inside of us" looks like the title of Insidious, the first holy shit crackerjack film in the now-ended franchise from James Wan and Leigh Whannell creators of the Saw phenomenon. I was never a big fan... Continue Reading →
Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2024 We've see a lot of films that are one thing on the surface and something else underneath. Infested, the French spider creature feature from Sébastien Vaniček in his feature debut is very much two things, but both are very much on the surface and striking in their forcefulness. You... Continue Reading →
Being Film #5 for Hooptober 2024 I remember the marketing for Children Of The Corn when I was a kid. The commercials were absolutely terrifying, and at 11 all I knew about Stephen King was that he was "The Master of Horror". I don't think I started reading his work yet, but when I did... Continue Reading →
Being Film #4 for Hooptober 2024 Now this is something I can get behind. Dario Argento may have lost a step or two personally since his heyday ended around 1985 (I'll go so far as 1987 with Opera) but the man could find and nurture talent, and one of the best was Michele Soavi. I... Continue Reading →
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