Horror, Hollywood, and Her Smell Make the Cut.
Disclaimer off the bat: I have not seen 1917 yet. Every time I make one of these lists, there is always a...
Horror Aficionado Paul Hibbard's List of 2019's Finest Horror Offerings on the Big Screen.
10. Doctor Sleep
Even if the movie isn’t perfect, it’s pro...
True Romance meets Japan
DIRECTOR TAKASHI MIIKE/JAPANESE/2019
Takashi Miike has a genre of filmmaking that can only be
described a “Japanese Extreme”...
A Dynamic Thriller That Tackles the American Dream
DIRECTED BY JULIUS ONAH/2019
Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr, in a star-making role), is given the oppor...
A Movie That Plays as a Faithful Adaptation and Not Much More
DIRECTED BY ANDRE OVREDAL/2019
If you would have asked me before the movie if I had rea...
A Film that Feels Like it Was Made in an 80's Anxiety and Stored in a Closet for the Last 35 Years
DIRECTED BY TILLMAN SINGER/2019
There is a dialog...
An Article Written By The Co-director of A Really Nice Guy on The Influences
Ms. 45 is a 1981 rape-revenge exploitation film from Abel Ferrara, a filmma...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
