Dolls (Stuart Gordon, 1987) – There’s a case to be made that Stuart Gordon is the most underrated horror movie director. He permanently carved his name into horror history with his debut Re-Animator, which transformed an old H.P. Lovecraft tale into a deadpan camp comedy drenched in buckets of blood. Yet, that sadly remains his […]
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) – As anyone who knows the ropes of a movie trivia pub night can tell you, there are only three movies that won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress at the Oscars. Of those three movies, the least substantial by far is It Happened One […]
F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1975) – Orson Welles might have spent most of his life struggling to make films after forever changing the medium with Citizen Kane, but he also never made a bad movie amidst those endless struggles. After tiring of his constant battles with the studio system in the 40s, Welles essentially […]
Judgement at Nuremberg (Stanley Kramer, 1961) – Edmund Burke said it best: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. This couldn’t be truer than in the 1961 classic Judgment at Nuremberg, and it serves as a salient reminder that when the primary focus is to lay […]
“Danse Vaudou” is filled with fatal missed connections between cause and effect.
The best movie to be released this week actually debuted on HBO, and it was the conclusion of an underrated TV series that gets a feature length send off.
Point and Shoot and Hermitage Revealed have very different subjects, but both manage to be interesting, but not insightful.
Diana McCallum and Andrew Ivimey recap episode six of The Flash - "The Flash Is Born" - in Dork Shelf's Fan v. Fan!
Not without ambition or merit, Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman struggles to connect with its own material and emotional heft.
The villains again steal the show in "The Things We Bury," as we get a look at Daniel Whitehall's origins and whatever hell of a household the Ward brothers grew up in.
Mockingjay should leave Hunger Games fans sufficiently satiated and salivating for the final entry.
Gotham, like Harvey Dent, has two faces. One is charming, enthusiastic and full of promise, the other is a goddamn mess.
Trapped in a thoroughly explored TV genre, how can Constantine still give hungry audiences something new?
Sure, McKelvie, Gillen and Wilson could keep putting out Phonogram forever and I would still buy it, but now that we have The Wicked + The Divine, I have two things to continually look forward to.
Beyond the Lights is the best romantic drama of the year: smart, crowd pleasing, and original, and boasting great leads.
