The Oath is like a George A. Romero film without the zombies — at least not the literal zombies. Put another way, it’s 1984 for 2018, a cautionary tale for a totalitarian future that casts a penetrating gaze at our proto-fascist present. Whatever your literary-cinematic reference point, comedian Ike Barinholtz’s directorial debut is easily the most confrontational, … [Read more...]
Feminist bent partly redeems ‘Blockers’ raunchfest
Blockers, the latest lurching vacillation of sweetness and raunch from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures, reimagines the sex-pact theatrics of American Pie from the female perspective. This makes it inherently more interesting than the original, in which the objects of the boys’ desires remained just that—objects. Here, three bright, witty, self-assured young … [Read more...]