Creepy-doll characters are a fixture of countless horror movies, although few are as imposing as the life-size wooden mannequin that figures centrally in Irish writer-director Damian McCarthy’s Oddity. Rather than relying on an overtly identifiable genre template however, McCarthy’s second feature incorporates a distinctly internalized, foreboding atmosphere of dread that’s …

While writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s expertise with genre material — from his international breakthrough, sci-fi revelation District 9 (2009), to dystopian dramas Elysium (2013) and Chappie (2015) — makes him a good fit for an action-oriented sports biopic, it’s perhaps his background as a visual effects artist that proves his greatest …

The theft of a valuable Native American artifact triggers a cascading series of violent crimes in Americana, a revisionist Western set in present-day South Dakota. Writer-director Tony Tost brings his years of experience on similarly themed episodic series like Damnation and Longmire to his directing debut, an ensemble feature with …

After the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Financial institution final week, it’s maybe price noting that with the failure of tech-sector lenders and startups alike, a whole constellation of related industries suffers as properly. The ache trickles down all through the group, impacting the likes of the Pakistani-American small enterprise …

Leveraging a modest begin as a restaurant reviewer for New West journal within the Nineteen Seventies, famend meals author and chef Ruth Reichl rose to the top {of professional} achievement because the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Occasions and New York Occasions. She then moved on to grow to …