May Day! May Day! It’s Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Tree
October 9, 2025Early press for The Wicker Tree has not been overwhelmingly good, but one might say it...
The Weekly Listicle: Celebrating Monstrous Matchups
October 4, 2025"Vampires versus werewolves" is only one of the time-tested feuds that film and television have offered...
The Weekly Listicle: Some Movies Are About Things
September 19, 2025At last, the long-rumored prequel/remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing infects theaters across the...
The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness
September 14, 2025The practice of blessing mass entertainment with the bard's prose confers a kind of loftiness upon...
The Weekly Listicle: There Goes The Neighborhood
August 30, 2025Forget good fences, and forget good neighbors. Characters in movies and television are far more compelling...
The Weekly Listicle: The Art Of The Heist
August 30, 2025This week, I join forces with Brett Davinger to chronicle some of the best heists, rip-offs,...
Best And Worst Movies Of 2011, Part 1
August 23, 2025We the critics of the Fourth Wall - Julia Rhodes, Brett Davinger, and myself - devote...
Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker
August 19, 2025Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the...
Day Late, Dollar Short, Solid Gold: “Dear Twilight…”
August 13, 2025Somewhere in the Twilight cutting room, did the thought never stir that they could drag untold...
What Is Best In Life? Not Conan 3D, Barring A Miracle
August 4, 2025Borne on the crest of the wind, I hear already the lamentation of women. Women whose...




