Welcome to Pop Altar’s 2nd annual Oscar predictions, which by comparison to last year’s mildly confident predictions (where I only got four wrong), are undeniably wobbly this time around, and have the consistency of...
I’ve been a rabid Glenn Close fan ever since I first saw her scare the ever-loving crap out of Michael Douglas’s philandering Dan Gallagher (and men in cinemas across the country) in 1987’s Fatal...
On paper, the sequel to Creed, which is essentially a sequel to Rocky IV, looks like a film doomed to succumb to the same Cold War camp that the first film did. The premise...
If you’re looking for a film that takes the standard tropes of a taut heist thriller and puts them in a blender with a heavy dollop of feminist kick-assery, a heaper of political corruption,...
If I said I was a hard core Queen fan, I’d be lying to you. I grew up listening to their most popular songs, and even singing along with them as they came on...
Before I went to go see Luca Guadagnino’s horror remake Suspiria, I had heard that it was similar in feel and mood to the Darren Aronofsky’s incredibly divisive mother! which was a film that I...
If Pulp Fiction, Hateful Eight, Lost, and Room 104 had a stylish, retro, film noir baby, it would be Bad Times at the El Royale. Drew Goddard, who previously cut his teeth writing for...
When I first saw the brilliant and soul-scarring horror film Hereditary earlier this year, it didn’t leave my mind for a good three days due to the sheer terror and creep-factor that I’d ingested...
When I first saw the trailer for A Star is Born, I rolled my eyes and thought “Here we go. Another remake. Another singer trying to be an actress. Another actor wanting to direct....
When Hereditary first came out this year at Sundance, it immediately drew a ton buzz for it being scariest movies ever made, along with several other hyperbolic statements that immediately drew my cautious curiosity....