Veronica takes a look at I, Tonya and Amy in this latest double feature with a focus on celebrity female anxiety as its theme.

In light of Deneuve's comments on #MeToo, Jenna muses on how it is that somebody so close to Repulsion could somehow miss this point of the movie entirely.

There is a spectrum for how humans think of the future: at one end are the people who look forward to Mars colonies and widely available sex robots, and at the other end is the Unabomber. Before We Vanish, Antiviral and Mindhack #savetheworld teeter somewhere in-between completely fatalistic and blindly idealistic.

Alex Garland's Annihilation is engaging and creepy, yet a little more on the horror-concept side than truly enlightening sci-fi to me. TL;DR I came for Stalker but I got reverse Solaris. 

Two-and-a-half decades before the stars of Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman had risen, there was a little girl from Delaware who, with a little perseverance and a whole lot of talent, took Hong Kong by storm.

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you,
You look like a monkey and you smell like one too

With graphic violence, rape, drugs, pedophilia and necrophilia, Veronica watched A Serbian Film so you don't have to. But maybe you actually should.

Some excellent movies come out in 2017, and some truly excellent movies that came out last year finally got the distribution they deserve.

If I had to sum up 2017 I'd use the word "dread." And cinema, a mirror of humanity as it were, sure seemed to reflect that sentiment...

Or "An excuse to go on about Hong Kong cinema."

Veronica looks at Black Christmas and Elves  – movies about female anxiety, loss of autonomy, murder, and, oh, Christmas.

AKA How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by telling them to shove their Christmas cheer and watch movies about losing yourself in a maze of hangovers and murder in the Australian outback.

My Friend Dahmer emphasizes how the culture of cruelty and selfishness in high school can aid in masking real warning signs. But to forgive or not to forgive is another question entirely.

Veronica takes a closer look at a different kind of odyssey. Featuring Showgirls, Good Time and Tangerine.

An engaging documentary about a woman who went from vaudeville, to radio, to variety shows, to Broadway, to television, to game shows, to stage shows, to voice overs and still is looking for more work in her ninties.

What is it that interests humans in seeing others killed, maimed, or tortured? A look at giallo, grindhouse, and the beyond.

Do androids dream of family dogs? 

There is a slew of newer movies that have been embracing “knock your eyes out” color, and it doesn't discriminate. Drugs, palm trees, Instagram, mob ties, coming-of-age, death – it's all neon, baby. 

this isn’t the starry-eyed kids of the pre-Vietnam sixties, setting out to make a name for themselves. It’s the druggies and the rockers and they’re here to party because fuck you, old man.

It's fun, it's bluntly obvious, it's absurd, it's grating, it will make you want to sit down somewhere quiet by the end because your ears are kinda ringing from the sound of incoherent voices, broken glass and explosions.