In my annual year-in-review piece, I highlighted how many horror movies were released just in 2023 (more than eighty). As if the movie gods were listening, my first screening of 2024 was a horror movie – Night Swim. Marketed as “from the producers of M3GAN,” Night Swim follows in M3GAN’s lazy footsteps, provides a couple…

A good movie, but it is not great. In fact, it is frustrating, because you know that it could have been great.

Suddenly, he appears from the mist; a mustached, well-tailored specter of near divine inspiration. His past is a mystery, both to us and his adopted town of Carthage, Texas, as if too much fact might derail the legend from its tracks. His canvas – blank yet inviting, undeniably odd while tinged with an unquestionable warmth…