Review| Hold the Dark
Director Jeremy Saulnier’s growing filmography should be getting much more attention. He surprised everyone with the low-fi action thriller Blue Ruin in 2013. Eschewing typical conventions within the genre, Saulnier’s barely proficient yet galvanized everyman protagonist Dwight, played by friend and collaborator…
Review| Mandy
A Latin proverb states, “revenge is a confession of pain.” While there is little evidence to find the origin of this quote or prove it is actually Latin, the axiom is true enough apart from its suspicious attribution. Revenge is…
Review| Venom
An otherworldly being inhabiting a human has been an oft-treaded conceit in the science fiction genre. The characters affected experience an assortment of interactions likened to symbiotic relationships found in the natural world. From the parasitic possession of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite…
Reel World: Rewind #031 – Addams Family Values
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… Leave it to Josh to pick a non-scary movie for October, but he tries his best by picking a horror-adjacent movie in the 1993 Barry Sonnenfeld movie, Addams Family Values. Enlisting the help…
Review| The Predator
Way back at the beginning of 2018, Shane Black’s The Predator made my list of the most anticipated movies of 2018. The original Predator is one of my favorite 80’s action movies, not even just ones helmed by AH-nuld. Combining the stealthy, monster-esque vibe of…
Reel World: Rewind #030 – UHF
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… We’ve got it all on this episode as we sit down to talk about UHF! Of all the career accomplishments of the legendary comedic musician Weird Al Yankovic, his 1988 feature-length movie may…
Review| The Happytime Murders
Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson and producer/director of Happytime Murders, seeks to expand upon his father’s legacy of telling adult stories through the medium of puppetry. As much as the second-generation puppeteer is fairly confident the creator of…
Reel World: Rewind #029 – Pontypool
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… A cerebral zombie movie taking place at a small, local radio station in rural Canada about the zombie-like infection being spread by language has perhaps been the most difficult episode ever to record…
Reel World: Rewind #028 – The Princess Bride
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind… It is borderline criminal there has not been a podcast episode on The Princess Bride, a movie universally loved within the Reel World Theology staff and contributors. Reel World staff members David Atwell…
Review| Superfly
The subgenre known as “blaxploitation film”–a term coined by the Los Angeles head of the NAACP, Junius Griffin–rose to prominence in the 1970’s as a direct response to the need for black actors on-screen. Representation mattered in the 1970’s, and blaxploitation…