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Maitland McDonagh

Film Review: Dig Two Graves

Film Review: Dig Two Graves

This slow-burn thriller oozes suffocating menace as its teenaged protagonist starts poking around her family tree and finds it rotten to the root.
Film Review: Atomica

Film Review: Atomica

This sci-fi suspense thriller produced by SyFy would look better than average on television, but in a theatrical environment its low-budget effects and small cast put it at a disadvantage.
Film Review: The Belko Experiment

Film Review: The Belko Experiment

In this vicious satire about dog-eat-dog corporate practices, office drones are pitted against one another in a kill-or-be-killed free-for-all.
Film Review: Don't Kill It

Film Review: Don't Kill It

A peripatetic demon turns a small town into a slaughterhouse in this brisk and very bloody supernatural thriller.
Film Review: Lavender

Film Review: Lavender

Repressed memories lead a woman to a terrible childhood secret in this psychological thriller with ghosts.
Film Review: The Girl with All the Gifts

Film Review: The Girl with All the Gifts

An adolescent girl may hold the key to saving the human race from a zombie plague in this tough-minded U.K. thriller.
Dark Side: Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' mixes horror and social satire

Dark Side: Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' mixes horror and social satire

Universal Pictures’ Get Out is not a funny movie. Yes, Jordan Peele is a funny guy: Born and raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side, he performed with Chicago's famed Second City troupe and later joined the cast of “MADtv,” where he met Keegan-Michael Key; their Comedy Central series “Key &...
Film Review: Irada

Film Review: Irada

Issue-driven Indian movie focuses on corporate corruption and influence-buying in India's Punjab region, where improper disposal of toxic waste has created a public-health crisis.
Film Review: Kedi

Film Review: Kedi

Ailurophiles should flock to this charming documentary about free-range cats in Istanbul.
High School Auteur: Teenager Jack Fessenden makes an auspicious genre feature debut with ‘Stray Bullets’

High School Auteur: Teenager Jack Fessenden makes an auspicious genre feature debut with ‘Stray Bullets’

Sure, there are lots of high-school kids making movies—they're shooting on their phones and posting to YouTube, doing mini-projects for class, or even borrowing a DV camera and making little scripted vignettes. And anyone who cares knows that Steven Spielberg started out making 8mm pictures in...