The Deadlights Theater: The Last Temptation of Christ + The Age of Innocence
Today's first double feature begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with an encore at 7pm EST!
2022-08-21 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Dunk Tank: The Prophecy
There’s a lot to like about The Prophecy, Gregory Widen’s surprisingly influential 1995 horror fantasy about disaffected angels squabbling over the fate of mankind. Christopher Walken’s performance as the archangel Gabriel is a wonderful little oddity, birdlike and bemused. The fil...
2022-08-20 20:34:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Raging Bull
Today's screening of RAGING BULL begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-08-17 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: The Wolf of Wall Street + The Color of Money
Today's first double feature begins begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with an encore at 7pm EST!
2022-08-14 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: A Wounded Fawn
Critic’s Disclaimer: I am friendly with this film’s star and with its director. While I have given friends and acquaintances less than stellar reviews many times before, I believe in full transparency.
We begin with a bronze sculpture of the erinyes, the furies of Greek and Rom...
2022-08-13 00:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: The Yellow Wallpaper
“I was moving toward something,” says Jo (J. Kiernan O’Brien) to her boyfriend Jack (Christian Clements), whose often intertwined coddling and micromanaging form the background of her struggle to form a cohesive sense of self in the wake of her gender reassignment surgery. Jo’s transition...
2022-08-12 00:54:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Bringing out the Dead
Today's screening of BRINGING OUT THE DEAD begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-08-10 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Resurrection
Losing a baby ends your life. I can still remember the feeling when I heard my sister’s son had passed shortly after birth. It was like a building coming down around me, a thunderous rain of masonry and choking dust swallowing up all other thoughts and experiences until all you can hear is the ...
2022-08-10 03:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: They/Them
Blumhouse has made a name for itself producing bland-looking horror billed as socially progressive, and writer/director John Logan’s They/Them slots neatly into place among its tedious and underwritten catalog. Set at a gay conversion camp and featuring a large and diverse cast of quee...
2022-08-08 19:52:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Cape Fear + The King of Comedy
Today's first double feature begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with an encore showing starting 7pm EST!
2022-08-07 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dunk Tank: Battlefield Earth
I’ve never seen a movie that looked like it was actively trying to escape the frame, or at least I hadn’t until I consigned myself to Roger Christian’s would-be Scientologist blockbuster Battlefield Earth. That the film, based on a novel by the cult’s founder L. Ron Hubbard, was ...
2022-08-07 04:28:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Prey
The original Predator is, charitably speaking, kind of a mess. It has its gonzo 80s charms, but its characters are largely forgettable, its themes a jumble of military adventurism and confused Vietnam-era commentary, and unlike its sister film and frequent point of comparison Alien <...
2022-08-05 22:22:43 +0000 UTC View PostGwoss Dispways of Power
Four years ago I jotted down some thoughts concerning moral puritanism’s hold on our relationship to art, posted the finished article to Patreon, and fell asleep. I woke up to a firestorm of debate, hundreds of strangers accusing me of being a pedophile, and thousands more groaning, “Finally,...
2022-08-04 03:12:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: The Full Marty
For August we're watching the films of Martin Scorsese!
Wednesday 8/3, 7pm: AFTER HOURS
Sunday 8/7, 11am and 7pm: CAPE FEAR and THE KING OF COMEDY
Wednesday 8/10, 7pm: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
Sunday 8/14, 11am and 7pm: THE WOLF OF WALL STREET and THE COLOR OF MONEY
Wed...
2022-08-03 18:53:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: After Hours
Today's screening of AFTER HOURS begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-08-03 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Nope
“That’s the dream you don’t wake up from,” growls renowned cinematographer Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott) in his tar-and-whiskey voice. He’s speaking to fast-talking, relentlessly self-promoting Emerald “Em” Haywood (Keke Palmer), whose desire for fame and success drive her like a ...
2022-08-01 00:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Gonjiam
It takes skill to build mood, to find the right beats and pace to bring a viewer fully into a manufactured emotional reality. We watch Youtubers Seung-wook and Sung-hoon do just that to their unsuspecting fellow performers, a team of supernatural “experts” and newcomers put together by haunte...
2022-07-29 04:28:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Incantation
It’s not often I need to pull a blanket over my bare legs during a horror movie these days, that talismanic action any child can tell you is the difference between whatever’s under the bed getting its scabby claws around your ankles or not. By about twenty minutes into Kevin Ko’s Incant...
2022-07-28 16:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: We're All Going to the World's Fair
Today's screening of WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-07-27 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Jurassic World: Dominion
“Are you saving these dinosaurs because they need us, or are you saving them to absolve yourself?” asks Claire’s (Bryce Dallas Howard) fellow dinosaur liberation activist after the two free an ailing ceratopsian calf from an illegal breeding facility. That the line is godawful is, after the...
2022-07-26 04:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: Hellbender
Too often in fiction about the arcane and occult, artists treat these forces as a sort of Mortal Kombat-esque move set. Reproducible gestures and words conjure reliable effects. That there are rules governing the magic in John and Zelda Adams’ and Toby Poser’s Hellbender is ...
2022-07-24 22:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Knife+Heart
Today's first screening of KNIFE+HEART begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-07-24 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dunk Tank: Mac and Me
When I closed the media player window after watching Mac and Me I hissed “shut the fuck up” at my computer, and I meant it with every fiber of my being. This movie is craven, dull, off-putting, and repulsive as only a true top-to-bottom corporate product can be. Its attempt at provid...
2022-07-24 00:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: The Den
Today's screening of THE DEN begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-07-20 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dunk Tank: Troll 2
Written in pidgin English by a director unable to communicate with his talent as a way to sublimate his wife’s irritation with her vegetarian friends, nonsensically renamed mid-production in the vague hope of capitalizing on an unrelated film, and starring among others a local dentist and a cat...
2022-07-19 00:31:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: The Conversation
Today's first screening of THE CONVERSATION begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-07-17 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Pontypool
Today's screening of PONTYPOOL begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-07-13 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostUnder the Stairs
Once upon a time they said that I corrupted children, that my books invited Satan’s forked and flickering tongue into the ears of the innocent. It used to make me cry. I thought of those children in their harsh, cruel houses, pale little faces hiding in the shadows under the stairs. I would thi...
2022-07-12 15:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: The Ring
Today's first screening of THE RING begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-07-10 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Christine
As a metaphor for the sort of rugged masculine individualism around which American identity has long revolved, the car is hard to beat. To skinny, bullied loser Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon), the battered 1957 Plymouth Fury he buys off the yard of the physically broken and emotionally soured Ge...
2022-07-08 00:13:31 +0000 UTC View Post