Author Archives: Ross Birks

This Eddie Murphy performance has been a long time coming, and you know what? It’s worth the wait. I’m a big fan of Craig Brewer too and this also feels like a return to form for him, here expanding on … Continue reading →

This was truly one of the most uncanny viewing experiences I’ve had this year. I watched a film I’ve never seen before, yet already knew like the back of my hand. Everything unfolded as knew it would, except the whole … Continue reading →

Satanic Panic feels like a comic book, and everyone is clearly having fun frolicking in all that blood and pitching their performances to a level you can only really get away with in a movie like this. I was initially a … Continue reading →

Quite taken by this. Has a consistently funny tone and visual flair to match. One of the few movies that will inevitably get compared to Shaun of the Dead that actually achieves the same level of care and inventiveness with its gags, … Continue reading →

This suffers from Henenlotter Imposter Syndrome, meaning for most of the time watching it I was thinking about Frank Henelotter and wishing I was watching one of his movies instead. Bad Milo strives for Henenlotter’s tone and wacky worldview without ever quite getting there. … Continue reading →

Being about a barman in New Orleans who discovers a haunted phone, Wounds has the minuscule focus and limited square footing of a great short horror story, silly concept included. It doesn’t try to branch beyond the orbit of these few characters … Continue reading →

At first glance, this doesn’t feel like some cheap cash-grab of a sequel. Candyman is so loaded with subtext that it would be easy to transform him into an un-interesting, catch-all bogeyman by dropping all of the provocative and challenging ideas established … Continue reading →

The first hour of this is terrific. It shows Sandler and Barrymore settling into their age, bouncing off of one another on a series of low-key dates gone awry ruminating on their lives as parents, domestic mishaps and divorce. It … Continue reading →