ANNABELLE

By Kyle G. King. A creepy looking doll can get you pretty far in the horror genre. For instance, take a look at the Child’s Play franchise, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year with its sixth film of the series, The Curse of Chucky. But horror has changed...

KILL THE MESSENGER

By Jarrod Jones. Michael Cuesta’s Kill The Messenger, a film about the weapons of journalism wielded by a goateed Jeremy Renner, is a tonally mixed bag of several great ideas. It’s a simmering political procedural that takes place during the plasti-sheen...

RETROGRADING: HOWARD THE DUCK

By Matt Fleming. As a child, I spent an inordinate amount of time watching movies on cable and VHS. My mother would insist I come outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. I would respond, “But Mom, Back To The Future is on HBO right now.” As an adult, I’m attempting to...

GONE GIRL

By Jarrod Jones. Even if you haven’t read Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl, odds are you’ve heard of it. Or perhaps you have at least a peripheral awareness of the icy thriller that merited the insufferable “oohs” and “aahs”...

THE ZERO THEOREM

By Kyle G. King. “Zero must equal one hundred percent. Good luck.” What a remarkably villainous equation for a robot to assign to a human being. Make everything out of nothing, I dare you. “Good luck” is a taunt on the innate curiosity of human nature itself. Such...