Tag: Joaquin Phoenix

  • Monster: The Ed Gein Story Review: A mamma’s boy in the making

    Monster: The Ed Gein Story Review: A mamma’s boy in the making

    MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY (2025) Multiple things can be true at once. Just ask Ed Gein. He’s been dead since 1984, so that’s not possible, nonetheless his perspective is the subject of the third installment of the Monster anthology series, following Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez…

  • Eddington Review: Smurf Village from Hell

    Eddington Review: Smurf Village from Hell

    EDDINGTON (2025) There is a lot going on in director Ari Aster’s Eddington. It’s namesake is a small town in New Mexico and stage for a new age western hurtling us back in time to 2020. Halfway into its 2 hour and 28 minute runtime, I started to see it as an adult, bizarro version…