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Oct 28, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Jesse Catherine Webber |Morris Yang |Luke Gorham
Robin Wood begins the introduction to his 1965 book Hitchcock’s Films with a question: “Why should we take Hitchcock seriously?” It’s a deceptively simple query; as I glance at my book shelf, I see no less than 10 books on the filmmaker — Wood’s Hitchcock’s Films Revisited; Rohmer & Chabrol’s Hitchcock; A Hitchcock Reader, edited by Deutelbaum & Poague; Durgnat’s A Long, Hard Look at Psycho; the canonical long-form interview Hitchcock/Truffaut; Walker’s Hitchcock’s Motifs; Krohn’s Hitchcock...
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
Credit: Philip Lozano/Shudder Writer-director David Moreau has set himself a tall task with his new film MadS, namely how to rejuvenate the moribund zombie sub-genre while also justifying the use of the annoyingly prevalent one-single-long-take gimmick.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
Credit: Republic Pictures While it’s undoubtedly true that every era of cinema likely produced more mediocrities than masterpieces, the dirty little secret of our streaming era is that never before have so many uninteresting films been so readily available — a veritable bounty of junk is literally a button away at any given moment.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
Credit: New/Next Film Fest/Telstar Films If the new indie neo-noir Gazer feels familiar, riffing on any number of classic thrillers as well as newer models like Memento and Too Late, it’s also a testament to how far you can get with a compelling lead.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
Credit: Tri-Star Pictures/Zoetrope Studios Published as part of Francis Ford Coppola: As Big As Possible.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
After several festival dates in 2023, Simon Barrett and E.L. Katz’s Azrael seemed to fall off the face of the Earth. Given the current state of the industry, with steamers and corporations dumping fully completed projects for tax breaks, there was genuine concern that Azrael would go the way of Batgirl or Coyote Vs Acme. Thankfully, this legal quagmire seems to have been resolved, with the film now set to be released courtesy of IFC Films and Shudder.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
Credit: Ralph Bavaro/Saban Films It’s been almost 25 years since the infamous Esquire piece in which Andrew Sarris suggested that Kevin Smith might become “the next Scorsese.” One doesn’t need a quarter century of hindsight to blanch at such a suggestion; indeed, there was plenty of contemporaneous pushback. But Smith has become something else instead — an institution of a certain kind.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, actress Kaniehtiio Horn speaks about the lack of leading roles coming her way after successful stints on TV shows like Letterkenny and Reservation Dogs. Kudos to her, then, for going out and doing it herself. Even better, the resulting film, Seeds, which Horn wrote, directed, and stars in, is a low-key charmer, freely mixing hangout comedy, anti-corporate sentiment, and gentle ribs at Reservation life (Horn is Canadian-Mohawk).
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
Credit: 2023 Thicket Alberta Productions Inc. / The Thicket US Inc. For people of a certain age, author Joe R. Lansdale will likely always be best known as the writer of some of the best Jonah Hex comic books of the ’90s, a series of horror-tinged Western escapades that mixed and matched genre signposts with thrilling abandon.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Daniel P. Gorman |Luke Gorham
Once the purview of Dateline NBC, 20/20, and 48 Hours, the surge of true-crime podcasts and Netflix documentaries has led to an explosion of amateur sleuths and Internet investigators. It’s tempting to read the new Lithuanian film Pilgrims through this particular lens, although Laurynas Bareisa’s spare, cryptic drama gradually reveals itself to be something altogether darker, and more singular.
