Cloverfield (2008)
Jan 19, 2008Found Footage Monster Movie
A J.J. Abrams produced film that was made under an absolute pall of secrecy. Released, it turns out to only be a fairly ordinary monster movie that is shot Found Footage style
Michael Stahl-David
Girls Against Boys (2012)
Dec 12, 2019Two Girls Go on a Killing Spree Against Men
In the vein of films like I Spit on Your Grave and especially Baise-Moi, two girls go on a killing spree against rapists and asshole men. Undeniably interesting but this gets sabotaged by the film's gaping moral blindspots
The Congress (2013)
Oct 9, 2013Virtual Actress/Future Shared Drug Hallucination
Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman adapts a work by Stanislaw Lem into a conceptually challenging part-animated film concerning a virtual actress and a future where the populace lives inside a drug-induced mass hallucination
In Your Eyes (2014)
Aug 8, 2014Psychic Link
Based on an old Joss Whedon script about two people who discover they can see through the other's eyes and talk mentally. A low-key film that acts as a bare stage allowing the two characters to interact