John Wiswell on the Web

It's almost February 2020, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2019. For many that includes movies that only ...

It's almost March 2019, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2018. Naturally I'll disagree with some of the ...

My first memories of The Mummy are parody. It feels like every syndicated cartoon had an episode with a pyramid and an angry zombie in band...

Let's talk about two great movies. They both came out in 2017. They both came out in August of 2017. They're Spanish...

Previously: Tragedy Girls, Evil Eye, and What Have You Done to Solange? Today I offer you two movies, separated by nearly fifty years, wi...

Previously: The Lobster and The Killing of the Sacred Deer Every October I devote at least one blog post to Giallo films, but I have to d...

Previously: Thelma, Annihilation, and The Endless We're taking a brief break from movies today to spotlight two Horror miniseries. One ...

Previously: Pyewacket, The Meg, and Hold the Dark. Today I have three winners for you. Helping get the taste of Hold the Dark out of my m...

Previously: Nicholas Cage's Mandy, A24's Slice, and Summer of '84. Talk about three intensely different movies. Today I've g...

Happy October, everyone! This is my favorite month of the year. The leaves are turning, the air is fresh, and pop culture is overrun by spoo...

It's my honor to have a piece in the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction issue of Uncanny Magazine. Between Lightspeed and Uncanny M...

It's almost March 2018, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2017. Naturally I disagree with some of the Oscar ...

"He's boring." "He's invincible." "There are no good Superman stories." I tire of people slagging th...

It's been fifteen months, but Netflix's most popular show is back. It sounds like we may not get another season until 2019, so sav...

Stephen King’s 1922 (2017) After the shocking hit of Gerald’s Game , I had to watch Netflix’s other big King adaptation. I am a huge ...

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970) These movies have been my first exposure to Italian Giallo, a sub-genre that feels like an evol...

The Devil’s Candy (2015) A family of Metal Heads move to a remote farm house and run into the same demon that killed the previous tena...

Raw (2017) (AKA Grave) Julia Ducournau’s gift to us from French-Belgian cinema, a riveting and intimate portrait of a vegetarian who has...

It Comes at Night (2017) No movie in 2017 more understands what film doesn’t have to do than It Comes at Night. It opens on ...

Duel (1971) That Steven Spielberg sure earned his career. This was the movie that earned him Jaws, but rather than the tale of a shark...