Articles by Laura Di Girolamo

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  Crimson Peak

  Guillermo del Toro

  PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2015

  Every so often, I think about how much I'd love a good gothic Victorian horror film, one that gets it all right: the damp darkness, the cru...

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  Jafar Panahi's Taxi

  Jafar Panahi

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2015

  Arrested and banned from filmmaking for allegedly creating anti-government propaganda, Jafar Panahi's Taxi sees Panahi posing as a taxi dri...

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  Invention

  Mark Lewis

  PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2015

  Invention is director Mark Lewis' love letter to urban space, the vast and unchanging nature of art and architecture contrasted against the...

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  The Visit

  M. Night Shyamalan

  PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2015

  There's a new M. Night Shyamalan movie. Here's the twist: it's fantastic.   The Visit, a hand-held mockumentary-style film written and dire...

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  Unexpected

  Kris Swanberg

  PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2015

  It's always nice to see films portray various types of motherhood, as well as realistic (apparently, pickle juice and smashed-up Cheetos is...

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  The Tribe

  Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2015

  Watching The Tribe is an exercise in perseverance.   About 20 minutes into Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's two-plus-hour, almost completely silen...

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  The Gallows

  Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing

  PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2015

  The found footage method of horror movie storytelling is so clichéd by now that it's a wonder filmmakers return to it at all. Every so ofte...

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  Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

  Kiah Roache-Turner

  PUBLISHED May 11, 2015

  Wyrmwood is a disconnected, confused film that rapidly switches back and forth between a gritty zombie survival story and a goofy, pulpy go...