Posts By Anton Bitel
2020: The year horror came home
December 27, 2020 | Anton BitelA magazine such as this would not even exist were it not for the natural drift, in this digital age, of all films onto the Internet. Even titles that start with a big traditional theatrical release eventually end up online … Read More
Muscle review: An intense study of injured masculinity
December 4, 2020 | Anton BitelGerard Johnson’s body-building buddy movie Muscle lays out in black and white the longing and panic of injured masculinity.Read More
Shudder UK film review: Anything for Jackson
December 3, 2020 | Anton BitelA kindly old couple raise hell to get their dead grandson back in this dark apocalyptic comedy.Read More
VOD film review: Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula
November 23, 2020 | Anton BitelYeon Sang-ho’s sequel to Train To Busan rides a second wave of high-octane action.Read More
VOD film review: Concrete Plans
November 23, 2020 | Anton BitelWill Jewell’s tense worksite tale is a dog-eat-dog state-of-the-nation thriller.Read More
VOD film review: Blind (2019)
November 16, 2020 | Anton BitelThis barely credible thriller offers endless stalk and slash, but little dash.
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VOD film review: Blood Harvest (The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw)
November 16, 2020 | Anton BitelThomas Robert Lee’s premodern fable shows an America destructively divided by faith and gender.Read More
VOD film review: About Endlessness
November 6, 2020 | Anton BitelRoy Andersson’s supposed swan song is a greatest hits remix of absurd humanist melancholy.Read More
VOD film review: Skylines (Skylin3s)
October 26, 2020 | Anton BitelLiam O’Donnell’s cheesy action-adventure ends the space trilogy on a sky-high note.
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FrightFest Halloween film review: Honeydew
October 25, 2020 | Anton BitelDevereux Milburn’s funny, horrifying debut is a queasily nightmarish fable of America’s food chain.Read More