By Vincent Abbatecola 10) Hereditary – I’ve seen countless horror movies, but I can’t remember any of them having the anxiety-producing impact on me that I felt while watching writer-director Ari Aster’s “Hereditary.” The story follows a family that devolves into madness when long-kept secrets are revealed after the death of a grandmother. Toni Collette, […]
By Vincent Abbatecola With the countless centuries of global history, we have a yearning to learn all of the details of every major occurrence that has taken place. While cinema isn’t the best way for us to be given insight into factual events because of the possibility of inaccuracies, movies can nevertheless do well in […]
By Vincent Abbatecola Peter Farrelly is a writer-director who has made a name for himself making comedies with his brother, Bobby, throughout the ‘90s and early 2000s, with two of their most notable films being 1994’s “Dumb and Dumber” and 1998s “There’s Something About Mary.” With credits like these, you wouldn’t expect either of the […]
By Vincent Abbatecola In a time where Hollywood has been experiencing an overabundance of sequels and prequels, it can be a bit exasperating when looking for something original. However, when it comes to remakes, there’s something about them that makes the prospect interesting, and that’s the ability for a director to take a film and […]
By Vincent Abbatecola Writer-director Alex Garland is someone who’s made several contributions to the sci-fi and horror genres over the last 15 years. He gave us a zombie apocalypse in “28 Days Later;” an outer-space thriller with “Sunshine”; a heartbreaking, futuristic love story with “Never Let Me Go”; and a grungy, urban dystopia with “Dredd.” Then, about three years ago, […]
BY VINCENT D. ABBATECOLA In 1982, director Ridley Scott brought Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” to the big screen with the movie “Blade Runner,” which followed the story of an ex-LAPD Blade Runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who’s brought back into duty to hunt down a group of replicants, […]