Having made it through every CGI explosion, glib one-liner and mawkish revelation of Shawn Levy’s The Adam Project (now on Netflix), I feel I owe Moonfall a partial apology. Roland Emmerich’s bonkers apocalypse picture from earlier this year was an embarrassment on every creative and technical front, but at least it embraced its badness. It seemed, like its self-replicating … [Read more...]
Amid comic horror, ‘Get Out’ a sharp critique of race relations, film
It’s been about 20 years since Wes Craven’s Scream franchise foregrounded what we all subconsciously knew: that African-Americans in horror movies are the most expendable of specimens, so detached from the white gaze that, by the time they’re dispatched as guinea pigs to the ominous cabin or the menacing basement or the moss-eaten manse, their chances of survival are less than … [Read more...]