Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in NO COUNTY FOR OLD MEN (2007) by John Larkin Every Halloween, the conversation turns to the familiar faces of terror: the monsters, slashers, and masked killers who have come to define the genre. But this feature takes a different path. These are performances that unsettle on a deeper level, where fear does not stem from prosthetics, reputation, or myth, but from the raw presence of the human being on screen. It is the way an actor inhabits a

Purchase at MovieZyng.com by clicking the image above. Review by John Larkin I first encountered THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN one crisp autumn night many years ago on Turner Classic Movies. I was struck by how refined it felt for a horror film. The lush production design, candlelit sets, and painterly compositions immediately pulled me in. It wasn’t just an old monster movie; it was something elegant and hypnotic. Over the years it has become inseparable from the Halloween seas

by Victoria Alexander WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! Roberts’ well-deserved 2nd Oscar, smoking is back!, and Guadagnino intentionally irks his audience. ‘Irks his audience’? You’ll know it when you hear it. Alma (Julia Roberts) is a renowned philosophy professor at Yale. She is on track for the hallowed academic state of tenure. Alma and her psychoanalyst husband Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg) are getting ready for a party at their big apartment for colleagues and “special” doc

Purchase at MovieZyng.com by clicking the image above! Blu-Ray review by John Larkin Much the way THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE are comfort food for me during Halloween and Christmas, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM is my go-to comfort whenever I need to laugh. CURB and SEINFELD are my two favorite comedy shows, not by coincidence, since they both come from the same creative mind. Larry David’s world is built on neuroticism, misanthropy, and awkward honesty, mixed