Edition 18 — Week of September 12, 2026 (Archived)
And let me be among the first say, it is delicious. That's just one way to describe how absolutely hypnotic musician-turned-filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour's A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT is.
— Candice Frederick, Reel Talk Online
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
This abstract space at the heart of the story, where a murderous ex-boyfriend smoldering over a grudge is usually found, is disconcerting and magnetic.
— Jo Livingstone, The New Republic
In the end, despite all its spooky marketing, Hereditary is a fable about generational silence in the face of mental illness, where the moral of the story is so dark and visceral that audiences feel compelled to look away.
— Lena Wilson, Bitch Media
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
1983
First it controls your mind. Then it destroys your body.
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.
1968
An epic drama of adventure and exploration.
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
1977
Do You Know Anything About Witches?
"My Most-Watched Movies"
"actually? impeccable"
"The blood-splattered slow-motion gun deaths Peckinpah utilized in The Wild Bunch are here, just as brutal and wrenching, but with a tone more elegiac than barbarous."
""Can't leave anything to chance. ""But can we change things if we do it differently?"
"marvelous exploration of grief. Romvari’s camera plays as memory, dancing around a subject so close, yet completely impenetrable"
"Despite that detachment, Beau Travail builds to an incredibly powerful ending, an ending I did technically know going into the film but really hits differently with the full context of the film."
"Watching filmmakers approach the craft with such an obvious sense of playfulness is so fun to watch. It’s not just a playful film but one that is playfully crafted. A joy start to finish. Amen."