In the words of Thomas Sanders, story time: so I first showed my kids Gremlins (1984) five years ago. There they were, sitting on the couch – ages 8 and 5 – all bundled up in their blankets with a … Continue reading →
Gotta hand it to Addams Family Values (1993): it’s one of the few sequels that manages to outshine the original, itself a rarity in that its predecessor, The Addams Family (1991), was a well-received big screen adaptation of a beloved … Continue reading →
I’ll be upfront, this one moves a bit slowly for me. However, that doesn’t entirely rule me out from recommending A Dark Song, a film by Liam Gavin (his directorial debut). A Dark Song is the story of Sophia (Catherine … Continue reading →
I am going to warn you: this is personal, and by the end of this, it won’t be pretty. I’ve written before about how Jennifer Kent’s 2014 film The Babadook has always struck me as a film that seeks … Continue reading →
(Note: the following post contains spoilers for the film XX, which is currently available on Netflix.) The multi-artist 2017 effort XX featured four different horror offerings as told by women, one of which is an adaptation of a male-authored … Continue reading →
2016’s Train to Busan left my heart pounding a way I hadn’t felt in a while. It built slowly but steadily, and despite some of its flaws, I found myself attached to the characters in a way that made the … Continue reading →
About a year and a half ago (where does the time go?), I voiced some of the issues I had with the parenting in Hiyao Miyazaki’s Ponyo. More specifically, the lack of parenting going on in that film, wherein a … Continue reading →
I know some extraordinary people that would make fantastic parents yet don’t want kids. It doesn’t matter that I think they’d be excellent at it – it’s not what they want after careful consideration, and frankly, I love them all … Continue reading →
