Deirdre Crimmins

1 week ago | thatshelf.com | Deirdre Crimmins

While some film sequels seem completely superfluous, like Weekend at Bernie’s and The NeverEnding Story, a second stab at the world of 2018’s A Simple Favor makes a certain degree of sense. The intriguing world of martinis, moms, and murder lends itself to new mysteries and even more high heels. While Another Simple Favor deserves snaps for the clever title, it does not fully live up to the charm of the original. This one begins much the same as the previous film.

3 weeks ago | rue-morgue.com | Deirdre Crimmins

By DEIRDRE CRIMMINSStarring Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jordan Gavaris and Lou Taylor PucciWritten and directed by Addison HeimannWTFilmsModern living can be awfully strange. This is not to take an overly simplistic, nostalgic look at the past through rose-colored glasses, but it is to say there are many more ways to derail a life these days. TOUCH ME takes a silly and satirical look at addiction, body horror and lust while maintaining its core of empathy and humanity.

4 weeks ago | thatshelf.com | Deirdre Crimmins

As Forrest Gump would say, vampires and nightclubs go together like peas and carrots. Mostly because of the whole daylight constraints of the vampire lifestyle, but it is more than that. It is the sexiness and seduction. It is the revelry and indulgence. Losing yourself in the music, sweat, and booze at a nightclub might be humanity’s closest feeling to being immortal, and the vamps themselves do not seem to mind that these revellers do not have their sharpest wits about them.

4 weeks ago | rue-morgue.com | Deirdre Crimmins

By DEIRDRE CRIMMINSStarring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Guy PearceWritten and directed by David CronenbergJanus FilmsYou know the old saying that sex is like pizza? Meaning, even bad pizza is still pizza, and bad sex is still sex. Comparing THE SHROUDS to both sex and pizza is not to say that it is a bad film. Far from it. Rather, it is to say that even the most midline film by the Canadian auteur (and I never use that word lightly) is still a really good film.

1 month ago | rue-morgue.com | Deirdre Crimmins

By DEIRDRE CRIMMINSStarring Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar and Violett BeaneWritten by Jillian Jacobs and Chris RoachDirected by Christopher LandonUniversal PicturesTelephones can be creepy. Rather, phones allow the person on the other end of the line to bring terror by threatening from afar, which is a whole new layer of potential cinematic fear. When a Stranger Calls and Phone Booth both use landlines, which require a specific location to tether their victims to a specific place.