Maika Monroe

LONGLEGS: A Cinematic Embodiment Of The Cruel And The Uncanny
LONGLEGS: A Cinematic Embodiment Of The Cruel And The Uncanny

Overall, Longlegs is well-directed, artistically apt, and really, really suspenseful.

LONGLEGS TRAILER

In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.

WATCHER Trailer
WATCHER Trailer

As a serial killer stalks the city, a young actress who just moved to town with her boyfriend notices a mysterious stranger watching her.

THE STRANGER: Make This Your Next Must See
THE STRANGER Season 1: Make This Your Next Must See

Gripping and irresistible, The Stranger will have you holding your breath and on the edge of your seat until the final moments.

VILLAINS: A Humorously Brilliant Take On An Old Idea
VILLAINS: A Humorously Brilliant Take On An Old Idea

With standout and nuanced performances, Villains is one of the funniest horror films you will see in quite some time.

I'M NOT HERE: An Empty Existential Drama
I’M NOT HERE: An Empty Existential Drama

Despite the large questions it establishes at the onset, I’m Not Here offers no answers or satisfying catharsis.

I’M NOT HERE Trailer

In I’m Not Here, a man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn’t the enemy he thinks it is.

GRETA Trailer
GRETA Trailer

In Greta, a young woman (Chloë Grace Moretz) befriends a lonely widow (Isabelle Huppert).

THE GUEST: Something's Wrong with David And The Horrific Unknown
THE GUEST: Something’s Wrong With David & The Horrific Unknown

The horror of the unknown, the horror of David, the horror of The Guest, all trace back to the simple question the film asks us and then leaves to fester: “Who is David Collins?”

HOT SUMMER NIGHTS: A Stylish Debut That Can’t Live Up To Its Own Promise

Hot Summer Nights’ story is not adequately interesting to justify the legendary tone, and it winds up feeling anodyne when it should feel explosive.

BOKEH: outside the depth of field
BOKEH: Outside The Depth Of Field

Bokeh is a stripped down take on a dystopian apocalypse- and like the best sci-fi, offers a bleak commentary on modern society.

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE: Nostalgic And Underwhelming
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE: Nostalgic And Underwhelming

Independence Day came out when I was 14. I was a huge X-Files fan (I did a school project on Area 51) and so thought it was pretty much the greatest film ever. It was also at this time that I began to fall in love with movies, and Independence Day was part of that trend of 90’s summer blockbusters that opened my eyes to what contemporary cinema meant to a lot of people.

IT FOLLOWS: The Worst Date Movie of 2015

With the blockbuster success of Fifty Shades of Grey in cinemas worldwide, many pundits are claiming that this marks a new era for “sex positive” movies – and much more importantly, the basic idea of a woman being as sexually open as her male counterparts not being a source of cinematic shame, but one of pride. It has only been two decades since what I dub the “unofficial Michael Douglas misogyny trilogy” of Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and Disclosure hit cinemas, films that (like Fifty Shades) were successful due to their frankness of sexuality. Yet those movies were inherently misogynist in suggesting that women were mentally unstable, or just plain evil for daring to be as open about their sexuality as men.