"...this is an origin story I really didn’t need."

"The film is certainly entertaining, but in the grand scheme of great World War II epics, Blitz is unlikely to find itself on any such list."

"Like the Iranian masters before him, [Matthew Rankin] emphasizes both the poetic and the peripheral, making his film feel less beholden to the “action” being depicted on screen than it is to the undercurrents of ennui and the curios of the filmspace.

"...amongst all of the absurdity, watching it play out is almost as interesting as watching paint dry... "

As an autumn treat, here are ten underseen Spooky Season movies for you to check out this month.

“Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great auteurs of cinema, but sometimes with auteur theory we lose sight of how much of a collaborative process filmmaking is.”

“What matters in a film like Twister is brisk pacing, helicopter shots, industrial fans, and (at the time) state-of-the-art visual effects. The simplicity is key.”