Movies
Starring Alex Hurt and featuring a clutch of indie legends, writer-director Larry Fessenden’s latest is manna for fans of unusual horror made with intelligence.
April 12, 2024
A city family experiences strange incidents in the country in the final entry of Larry Fessenden’s spooky trilogy.
March 1, 2002
A true family project, the low-budget crime picture “Stray Bullets” was co-produced by indie cinema hero Larry Fessenden with his wife, Beck Underwood, and their son, Jack.
Feb. 9, 2017
If an attractive member of the opposite sex with “kind of a timeless quality” came on to you at a hip New York party, would you wonder if this was one of the undead or just be pleasantly surprised?
Oct. 29, 1997
Horror icons Barbara Crampton and Larry Fessenden star in “Jakob’s Wife,” a vampire tale of a higher order.
April 14, 2021
First-time writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s “River of Grass,” a winner about losers, evokes the tired lovers-on-the-run genre only to stand it on its head and shake out of it fresh meanings and humor.
Oct. 13, 1995
‘Margarita Happy Hour,’ by writer-director-editor Ilya Chaiken in an auspicious feature debut, follows an artist struggling with her life’s transition.
July 5, 2002
“Mad Men: The Complete Collection” (Lionsgate): Now that the final episode has aired, the complete run of Matthew Weiner’s period drama stands as one the great achievements in the history of TV: a set of poignant short stories, revolving around the 1960s advertising business, adding up to a grand statement about social and personal change.
Dec. 11, 2015
Reviews for ‘Depraved,’ ‘The Weekend,’ ‘Can You Keep a Secret?,’ ‘Scarborough’ and ‘Seeds.’
Sept. 12, 2019
“Like Me” makes a case for describing one corner of the web as anti-social media, in that the need to connect online can send certain souls toward ever-darker impulses.
Jan. 25, 2018