‘The Monkey’ Review: A Delightfully Absurd and Funny Gorefest

‘The Monkey’ Review: A Delightfully Absurd and Funny Gorefest

The Monkey is exactly the kind of hilarious, madcap horror-comedy we need to inject a little life (and death) into cinemas this February. The latest from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins, The Monkey is based on the Stephen King short story of the same name and follows twin brothers who discover a mysterious wind-up monkey (don’t…

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Presence’ Opens Strong, Nearly Doubling Its Budget in First Weekend

Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Presence’ Opens Strong, Nearly Doubling Its Budget in First Weekend

The latest from director Steven Soderbergh opened strong this past weekend, nearly doubling its modest $2 million budget. In total, the film grossed $3.7 million in its first three days of wide release. We reviewed the film last week, and gave it a positive rating thanks especially to the strong direction and camerawork from Soderbergh….

Presence Review—A Supernatural Stunner with a Spiritless Script

Presence Review—A Supernatural Stunner with a Spiritless Script

Presence is the latest film from director Steven Soderbergh who has one of the more interesting filmographies I’ve seen. It includes the Ocean’s Trilogy, Magic Mike, Contagion, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and Logan Lucky, a movie I really, really like. He was my most watched director last year too, as over the holidays I watched…

Review Roundup: Anora, Terrifier 3, and 5 More Films Worth Watching

Review Roundup: Anora, Terrifier 3, and 5 More Films Worth Watching

Welcome to the first of three Review Roundups! We have 21 new reviews coming at you over the next week and we will kick things off with our first 7 in this review. Between work, covering the Austin Film Festival, and life in general, we’ve been pretty busy but we still wanted to get our…