31 Days of Horror: The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears The first 45 minutes of The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears lay the foundation for a...
The dead are alive...
Disappointing Welcome to New York feels like conquered ground for Ferrara There are times during Abel Ferrara’s Welcome to New York when you can feel a defiant filmmaker...
Jupiter Ascending rises to absurd and hilarious heights… That sound you’re hearing is a massive sigh of relief from David Lynch. He no longer holds the...
Gods of Egypt will not forsake you I once appeared on the wonderful News Reel podcast here on Pop Optiq. The topic of discussion was an...
A chance encounter between a down-and-out music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter, new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
Boy meets girl. Girl unimpressed. Boy starts band.
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
Nightcrawler is a creepy and enigmatic thriller… Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler, has a lot on its troubled mind. It intertwines our national obsessions with voyeurism and stardom...
Help is only 140 million miles away
Turbo Kid Review Turbo Kid is a post-apocalyptic love letter to the action-horror genre. It looks and sounds wonderful, with the kind of world-building you would expect...
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a fitting tribute to comedy legends… The new documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon takes us back to...
Ryan Coogler’s Creed was the Biggest Surprise of 2015 Creed, the seventh film in the venerable Rocky series, feels completely fresh despite revisiting some very familiar territory. Proving...
How Snowpiercer Builds a New Kind of Prison South Korean filmmaker, Joon-ho Bong, has never been afraid of mixing genres. In Snowpiercer, Bong mixes action, sci-fi and...
A Movie Crazier than Tiger King Watching 1981’s notorious nature thriller, Roar, is like subjecting yourself to a psychological experiment. Unbelievable images evoke reactions ranging from horror...
'Aquaman' is the guiltiest of pleasures, marked by moments of inspired idiocy and unintentionally hilarious gravitas. What separates it from similarly overwrought visual extravaganzas is an...
Think of Halloween (2018) as the Star Wars: The Force Awakens of horror films. David Gordon Green’s sequel takes everything that was wonderful about John Carpenter’s original Halloween, bathes it in...
Shane Black’s return to the Predator franchise is gratuitous in every glorious sense of the word. The veteran writer-director amps up the humor, bloodshed, and absurdity...
The public trial and eventual hanging of the fugitive Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann in 1962 was the culmination of a thrilling mission. Covert operatives from Israel’s...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Jason Statham and his turtleneck are here to punch a giant shark into...
