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IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE Review: A Slasher For the Holidays

The Hallmark Channel has turned the holiday season – specifically, the months-long Christmas season – into an incredibly lucrative all-year affair. Numbers-wise, Lifetime Channel isn’t too far behind. Both rely on formulaic plots, inexpensive, fungible talent on both sides of...

Review: HOUSE OF DARKNESS, A Tempting Place To Hide

The eyes can grow accustomed to the dark.   Still, the central theme of House of Darkness will become visible to most viewers too soon. Maybe that’s because while director Neil Labute tries to infuse a sense of mystery into...

Review: BARBARIAN, Hell Really Is Other Airbnb People

Nothing says "stranger danger” like showing up at an out-of-town Airbnb in the middle of a downpour, finding entry into the rental blocked, the owners unavailable to take your frantic phone call, and someone else already inside, enjoying the warmth...

Review: LADY OF THE MANOR, A Slack Modern-Day Stoner/Ghost Story

Melanie Lynskey, Judy Greer, Justin Long and Ryan Phillipe star in a ghostly comedy, directed by Christian Long and Justin Long.

Review: THE WAVE, Visual Madness and Hilarity While Hitting Rock Bottom

Justin Long, Donald Faison and Sheila Vand star in a movie featuring a very bad drug trip; Gille Klabin directs.

Fantastic Fest 2019 Review: THE WAVE Offers Thoughts and Thrills

Justin Long, Donald Faison and Sheila Vand star in a movie featuring a very bad drug trip; Gille Klabin directs.

Review: LAVENDER, Secrets Are Revealed in a Haunted House

Like many gothic ghost stories, Lavender centers around a woman with a vulnerable psyche and a shadowy past. In this case, the woman is Jane (Abbie Cornish), a young mother and wife who may have butchered her parents and sister...

TUSK: A Little Dinner Conversation In A Clip From Kevin Smith's Latest

Kevin Smith's Tusk opened nation-wide in the U.S. yesterday. We have a clip to share with you. In the clip Wallace (Justin Long) and Howard (Michael Parks) are sitting down to have a meal. Well, Wallace it turns out does not...

Don't Die In Canada, Watch The Trailer For Kevin Smith's TUSK Instead

Cue up the Beatles jokes as regards Justin Long in Kevin Smith's gonzo horror film Tusk because the new trailer is arrived and, yup, it's every bit as odd as you might expect.Long stars with Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez and...

Kevin Smith Goes Christmas Gore-y With ANTI-CLAUS

Kevin Smith hasn't put the finishing touches on his upcoming film Tusk, but he's already bringing the band together for his following project, the yuletide creature feature Anti-Claus. Justin Long, Michael Parks and Haley Joel Osment will all return for their...

For a Good Time, Call... Director Jamie Travis for a Quickie Chat

It's a beautiful day in Vancouver, BC, when I get a call from Jamie Travis, director of the new movie For a Good Time, Call... . Opening Friday, the film stars Ari Graynor (Celeste and Jesse Forever, Nick and Norah's...

Review: FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL... Pushes All the Right Buttons

As difficult as the ins-and-outs of solid female friendships may be to navigate in real life, they prove even more difficult in the movies. Or so Hollywood would have us all think, given the dearth of attention it has historically...

Interview: Ari Graynor and Lauren Miller Talk FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL...

[Our thanks to James Wallace for this interview.] After winning over audiences with its blend of saucy comedy and sweet emotion at this year's Sundance Film Festival, FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL... hits theaters this weekend in select cities with...

For A Good Time Watch The Red Band FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL Trailer

Phone sex is funny. That's just a fact. Which makes it rather surprising that there aren't more movies that take advantage of the inherent comedic value of said phone sex. Luckily the world has Jamie Travis and his indie comedy...