I know you're at least a little bit curious to see what this character is up to based on the trailer alone. So I'm assisting with some free passes for the Philadelphia-area crowd. And yep, there's a review coming.
Click here to secure your spot to see the Octavia Spencer-led horror film from Blumhouse, MA.
Date: Tuesday, May 28th
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: UA Riverview
1400 S Christopher Columbus Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19147
MA has its official wide release on Friday, May 31st!
L. Marie Wood does it all. In the realm of horror storytelling, her advocacy spreads in pages you can turn and click. Her insight has led podcasts, panels, and college classrooms. She proposes, that horror, and all the creatures therein, helps us understand our ancestral experiences. To gain knowledge of what lurks in the shadows so it doesn't remain unknown. Wood's intimate relationship with the genre and leanings towards the psychological is why critics have consistently described her work as enchanting.
Motherhood looms as this pervasive, anxiety inducing ponderance. It's a personally difficult decision being older and not fully committing to the idea of such a transformative life role. It's a wonder how the hell my own mom managed. Not just with the external pressures to be the ideal parent, but the extreme learning curve if your child's temperament, which in my mom/me dynamic, is overwhelmingly opposite of your own.
My highest recommendation of the year so far will be available to stream on Netflix next month. The less I say, the better. Reviews and all of that goodness is to come. For now, indulge the trailer.
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| Thriller star Jessica Allain (Lisa Walker) |
Described as "one of the darkest and most surprising Stephen King adaptations to date" by Daily Dead's Heather Wixson, Pet Sematary is burrowing its way towards theaters on Friday, April 5th. Philadelphia is celebrating the buzz with a free, advanced screening on Wednesday, April 3rd at 7:30PM at the UA Riverview in South Philly.
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| Madison Curry is incredible as Young Adelaide |
A family's summer vacation is interrupted one night when they're forced to confront a menacing group of people outside their home. Who look exactly like each of them.
Written & Directed by Jordan Peele
‘Us’ is a horror movie.— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 17, 2019
Spoilers Ahead!
Nightmares surrounding abandonment, separation, and confinement have followed my subconscious for a lifetime. They've given me not only sleepless nights, but unbearable thoughts about the darkness that looms in reality and my vulnerability to it. Being little, everything was so large and oftentimes frightening. Maybe the relative safety of home and the TV (knowing Thriller wasn't "real" yet, OMG zombie Michael Jackson is gonna get me!) were ways to ease my inner tension and face my fears. In Jordan Peele's latest, a little girl with symmetrical plaits and an oversized Thriller t-shirt leaves the safety of her parents to venture into a very dark boardwalk attraction at night. It is the tone of her voice, her sweet solemn face, her attraction to a macabre piece of pop cultural art and ominous circumstance that completely destroys me. Us, its cold opening and the eerie tale that follows became a test of my own emotional state that I was not prepared in any way to face. And that's just one of the ways that makes this heavily symbolic film so brilliant.
A desperate 20-something in an immense amount of debt relies on an urban legend in order to make some quick cash.
Written & Directed by Jaanelle Yee
Who here has felt that gut poke when checking your mail becomes a test to not completely lose it because, relentless past due bills? Hannah (Nadira Foster-Williams), a med school dropout who doesn't even see the fourth wall in her reality has failed that test. It is her complete transparency that makes her the perfect vessel for Sell Your Body, a dark horror comedy that sets the tone for so many urgent anxieties about the things we've learned to hate most about being an adult: debt and dating.
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