One of—if not THE—most memorable horror movie third acts in nearly 30 years. First 90 minutes are small town suburban drama & dread glistening against an unsolvable mystery, structured like Twin Peaks meets Pulp Fiction meets Prisoners and featuring some very restrained, very human performances from actors who really are just there to distract you from the one gospel-like truth: Zach Cregger is, above all else, a comedian. And then he ends this thing like a gloriously exploding clown car.

I was told…

Two films now in 2023 have dared to examine the fallout and societal implications of WWII’s nuclear exclamation point:

1.  A hard-hitting social drama chronicling years in the life of a man broken and haunted by his own failure to prevent the darkness and devastation that enveloped the world following the introduction of the atomic bomb and the inadvertent opening of a door to an endless plague of hopelessness and destruction set upon future generations; a film which truly encapsulates…