Is it ethical to pay to see a Johnny Depp film?
It’s a question I found myself considering after attending a preview screening of Ebenezer, having just paid to see a Johnny Depp film. Not exactly the moral high ground.…
Tag: ghost
REVIEW: Good Boy (2025)
The first image says it all: a russet-brown pooch drowsing on a couch, the warmth of his fur glowing bright against encroaching shadows.
It’s peaceful, almost banal. Then a phone rings, a jarring note in a chiaroscuro frame. Light flickers. Shadows thicken.…
REVIEW: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
He’s back, baby.
Before Michael Keaton was Batman, he was Beetlejuice.
In Tim Burton’s 1988 film of the same name, Keaton portrayed the titular ghoul; a lecherous, foul-mouthed “bio-exorcist” hired by the recently deceased Maitlands (played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) to scare away the new occupants of their home.…
REVIEW: Winchester
Gun-house, not fun-house.
The House of Haunted Hill. The Shining. Poltergeist. The Amityville Horror. The Conjuring. The haunted house is perhaps the staple trope of the whole horror genre. The things that go bump in the night are, as a rule, scarier when they’re living – or not living – in your home, and in Winchester, the Spierig Brothers have given themselves some prime real estate to play with.…