Posts By Anton Bitel
2020: The year horror came home
December 27, 2020 | Anton Bitel
A 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 Bitel
Gerard 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 Bitel
A 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 Bitel
Yeon 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 Bitel
Will 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 Bitel
This 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 Bitel
Thomas 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 Bitel
Roy 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 Bitel
Liam 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 Bitel
Devereux Milburn’s funny, horrifying debut is a queasily nightmarish fable of America’s food chain.Read More
