Leah Schnelbach

5 days ago | reactormag.com | Leah Schnelbach

Bring Her Back knows what it’s doing. It’s well-made, brilliantly acted, dark and startling and brutal. And if you saw Danny and Michael Philippou’s directorial debut, Talk to Me, which Danny Philippou co-wrote with Bill Hinzman, you’ll know that the trio have a rare talent for exploring grief through relentless horror. Bring Her Back makes Talk to Me look like an episode of Bluey, and I’m not really sure it was for me.  Parts of it were.

2 weeks ago | reactormag.com | Alex Brown |Leah Schnelbach |Liz Bourke

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3 weeks ago | reactormag.com | Leah Schnelbach

Until yesterday, my favorite moment in the entire Final Destination series came in Final Destination 2, when Rory (Jonathan Cherry), a fairly stereotypical drug-addled burnout, asks Kimberly (A. J. Cook) to clear all of his drugs and porno out of his apartment when he almost inevitably predeceases her. “Anything that might break my mom’s heart”, he tells her.

3 weeks ago | reactormag.com | Leah Schnelbach

This is a full spoiler essay for Thunderbolts*, and more important: I’ll be discussing issues of mental health, addiction, and suicide, so please take that into consideration if you’re not in a good place to read it. I’ll also say that my brain and I are in a complicated situationship. Sometimes we’re BFFS, other times I’m in a corner with a chair and a bullwhip, barely keeping the fucker at bay. And given that, Thunderbolts* felt like a warm—if sometimes uncomfortably tight—hug. Thanos. Ultron.

1 month ago | reactormag.com | Leah Schnelbach

I never thought I’d have to open a review of a Marvel movie with a content warning, but these are special times, so here goes: Content warning for suicidal ideation, frank discussions of mental health issues, child abuse, and drug addiction. Having gotten that out of the way: You know how sometimes you see a movie that reminds you what movies can do? For me, this year, that’s Sinners. Companion, The Presence,  Black Bag, The Monkey—all were good, solid films.