Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Jacques Demy’s adaptation of the classic French fairy tale about a princess who dresses as a donkey to avoid marrying her father is a Technicolor musical with some truly strange 1970s vibes. Taking place in an unnamed kingdom where nobody has any obligations besides hanging out with their face-painted servants and pilgrim-esque royal advisors, “Donkey Skin” is a 90-minute ode to scheming and daydreaming that results in a game of romantic musical chairs destined to produce the most awkward Thanksgiving of all time. —CZ
With sentimental sweetness akin to “The Fablemans” and giddy action best described as an even gorier “Kill Bill,” Sion Sono delivers his blood-soaked, meta-masterpiece “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?”
It will leave even the most gore-averse action fans touched by its sincere love of the movies. Sure, it’s got buckets upon buckets of blood, both prop and digital, and some of the gutsiest kills to ever grace the organized crime subgenre. (Seriously, Sono practically paints in dismemberments.) But…
Rose McGowan absolutely eats as the villainous Courtney Shayne in “Jawbreaker”: Darren Stein’s fabulously noxious mean girl movie from 1999. When Courtney and her two closest minions (Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz) “kidnap” their best friend/shoe-in for prom queen Liz Purr (Charlotte Ayanna), a seemingly harmless prank leaves the teens with a dead body in the trunk of their convertible. With Carol Kane’s Principal Sherwood and Pam Grier’s Detective Vera Cruz breathing down the girls’ necks, the so-called Flawless Four —…
The poster for “Pieces” boasts one of the all-time great taglines in horror marketing history: “It’s Exactly What You Think It Is.” But while that really rolls off the tongue, it’s completely false. “Pieces” is a movie that confounds at every turn, filled with bizarre plot developments, strange attempts at humor and sexuality, and a kung-fu professor. Pair that with some genuinely fun kills and you’re left with a midnight movie for the ages. —CZ