Edition 22 — Week of October 10, 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.
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Zombie problem in Kentucky. How's Tennessee?
— Stephen Holden, The New York Times
Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
1977
Four men...outlaws thrown together by fate...share a fantastic adventure and risk the only thing they have left to lose.
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.
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.
2026
Be careful who you wish for…
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
An enchanted village. A wonderful friendship. Star-crossed lovers. And the magic of the movies.
2016
A god incarnate. A city doomed.
The irony is that LaBute (revising a screenplay by Laura Jones) has added syrup to the romances and drained out the danger.
— Charlotte O'Sullivan, Sight & Sound
Suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters, this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by Hollywood.
— Jamie Russell, BBC.com
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
An objectionable comedy about disappointment and forgiveness.
2026
Fear is the new faith.
The one movie this fall that will put a smile on your face.
2026
It wants to be heard.
"Their own desires give them pain, and their own love destroys them. This is the Reason of this world!"
"Violence is often filmed from a distance, cinematically engaging to be sure but with visceral excitement deemphasized."
"Hathaway's past traumas haunt him: "I know it was my fault. I can't be forgiven."
"so exhilarating to see how the sausage is made, a country reborn in chaos. a group of statesmen and everymen crammed into a room shouting over each other to decide what Romania will now be called, just a few short hours…"
"One of the great food movies."
"The beautiful costumes whose changing colours correspond to the fabulously detailed sets, the sumptuous foods, and the lush eroticism and intimacy between Wife and Her Lover."
"cracking my knuckles and writing an essay about why you should double feature this with Safe here's me fangirling over barbara stanwyck for 2+ hours:"