My biggest fear going into Backrooms was whether or not I'd be bored as hell, worried that something that works great as a short doesn't translate well to a longer narrative form because of all these things like characters and story and narrative. After all, how much fear and tension can you wring out of a room that's just unsettlingly slightly off kilter, especially in a world inundated with laughable AI hallucinations?

At the same time, though the very premise…

Not all of I Love Boosters's ideas develop into a fully satisfying metaphor or thesis, but given the sheer volume of ideas thrown at you and the energy with which they're thrown, that's not really a mark against it. If anything, the fact that it can present its chaos with such coherence and clarity is a feat unto itself. While there were numerous, MANY instances in the film where I went "What the fuck is going on?" it's stemming more…

So like, nobody did any sort of research before picking a topic to make a #girlboss movie?

Here's some snippets from the most laziest form of research imaginable:

"The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves. As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the…

I can't remember the last time I've been this unsettled and rattled coming out of the theaters. Obsession isn't a peek through the fingers type of horror, where some terrible thing is about to happen that people can't do anything about, but is instead the kind of horror where some terrible thing is about to happen that people WON'T do anything about. Both Bear (Michael Johnston) and Ian (Cooper Tomlinson) had multiple opportunities to do the right thing, but they…