With only the most obvious references to horror staples and a juvenile handle on aging, Max and Sam Eggers’ genre exercise doesn’t deserve Kathryn Hunter’s clever and crafty performance. Hunched, ...
Who could blame Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door for being more interested in its leading ladies than in contemplating death? Photo: Sony Classics This article originally ran on September 7, 2024 ...
Along with his fondness for red cars, absurd sexual encounters and earthy Spanish matriarchs, Pedro Almodóvar has a much more melancholy special subject that keeps cropping up in his otherwise dynamic ...
Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...
The English-language debut from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is a disappointingly staid affair that can’t find life in its story of death and friendship. And it also feature another key element of ...
Though it is unquestionably a horror movie, A24's The Front Room doesn't feature any blood until late in its second act. Instead, practically every other bodily fluid appears on screen in copious ...
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore consider the middle distance in The Room Next Door. Courtesy: Sony Pictures Classics A woman is dying and asks her friend for a favor. “What is it?” the friend asks.
Brandy Norwood stars as Belinda, an anthropology professor who worries she’ll be stuck at the non-tenured adjunct level forever, especially now that she’s about to have a baby. Tired of being passed ...