When I was a wee lad, my father tells me, I fell asleep in protest of how long it was taking for the 1976 King Kong to get around to showing the monster. As I’ve grown older and matured in my cinematic tastes, I’ve come to appreciate the suspenseful restraint of classics like Jaws and…

In my annual year-in-review piece, I highlighted how many horror movies were released just in 2023 (more than eighty). As if the movie gods were listening, my first screening of 2024 was a horror movie – Night Swim. Marketed as “from the producers of M3GAN,” Night Swim follows in M3GAN’s lazy footsteps, provides a couple…

A good movie, but it is not great. In fact, it is frustrating, because you know that it could have been great.

Suddenly, he appears from the mist; a mustached, well-tailored specter of near divine inspiration. His past is a mystery, both to us and his adopted town of Carthage, Texas, as if too much fact might derail the legend from its tracks. His canvas – blank yet inviting, undeniably odd while tinged with an unquestionable warmth…