Author: Ezra Stead

Beau is fucked, is what he is. Right from birth, when he is dropped by the doctor delivering him. The doctor denies it, but Beau’s overbearing, quintessentially Jewish mother, Mona (played by Zoe Lister-Jones in flashbacks from Beau’s childhood, and Patti LuPone when he is an adult), knows the truth. This is far from the…

In its opening minutes, the children’s story-themed slasher Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey shows a hint of genuine promise. Obviously this public domain cash-grab was never going to be some masterpiece of the cinema, but in the (barely) animated opening exposition, I was reminded of the camp classic Jack Frost (not the one with Michael Keaton),…

When I was a wee lad, my father tells me, I fell asleep in protest of how long it was taking for the 1976 King Kong to get around to showing the monster. As I’ve grown older and matured in my cinematic tastes, I’ve come to appreciate the suspenseful restraint of classics like Jaws and…

In the wide range of roles played by the great Nicolas Cage throughout his career, it is easy to focus on the iconic, larger than life characters, such as Castor Troy, Dracula, or indeed Nicolas Cage. There was also the era of Cage as unlikely action hero in the 90s and beyond, and he has…