by Sean Atkins | Apr 19, 2023
Ari Aster’s latest frequently goes off the beaten path – for worse. There’s an animated scene halfway through Beau is Afraid that sums up the film perfectly. As the titular star imagines himself in an alternate life played out on a stage, we watch how it all plays...
by Mike Joseph | Jan 25, 2019
2018 was a good year for movies. Not great like 2016 and 2017, but there were definitely some great films to hit theaters and streaming services last year including Hereditary and BlacKkKlansman. I saw over 100 films in 2018 and I managed to narrow them down to a top...
by Mark Miller | Jun 12, 2018
This week I saw Hereditary, a new horror film that I’d heard very good things about. It had been compared to The Witch (one of my very favorite horror films) and was supposed to be this decade’s The Exorcist. The trailer didn’t make Hereditary look like much but...
by Mike Joseph | Jun 8, 2018
It is very easy to see why Hereditary had an incredible amount of buzz after this year’s Sundance. New director Ari Aster comes onto the scene and has one of the most confident horror visions and well-crafted screenplays EVER. Not just in the past 10 years, but...
by Mike Joseph | Jan 30, 2018
In the past few years, the horror genre has been making a come back. Sure, every year we still get a few of the cardboard cut out atrocious horror flicks like 2017’s The Bye Bye Man and this year’s Insidious: The Last Key. Unfortunately, that brand of...
