Nathan Bartlebaugh

[Review] Black Rock

There’s so much promising talent behind the new thriller Black Rock, that it’s initially disappointing when director Katie Aselton and scribe Mark Duplass revea...

[Review] Pieta

Kim Ki-Duk’s Pietà may draw its title from a famous Michelangelo sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary embracing the body of Jesus Christ, but the movie itself ...

[Review] Star Trek Into Darkness

There’s a moment early in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness that irrevocably moves this series away from the gentler humanist roots of its creator Gene Rodde...

[Review] Willow Creek

The best thing about the new found footage film, Willow Creek, is its nifty pairing of two undeniably quirky American originals, one famous for running in the b...

[Review] Butter on the Latch

Attention fans of dark, surreal drama, there’s a new voice in town and here’s hoping she sticks around. When I came to her new film Butter on the Latch, I didn’...

[Review] Peeples

Here, finally, is a movie that would actually benefit from dropping the ‘Tyler Perry Presents’ tag that inevitably accompanies it. Nothing against Perry, who...

[Review] No One Lives

When the WWE logo appears at the start of Ryûhei Kitamura’s No One Lives, it feels out of place with the film’s horror movie expectations. After about an hour o...