Andrew Crump, Author at The Playlist

‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Review: David Blue Garcia Lets Leatherface Rip In Delightfully Gory Sequel

February 18, 2022 9:26 am

A “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” movie made for 2022 is a low-expectation enterprise. Is it set in Texas? Is there a massacre? How about a chainsaw? Check the boxes, and off you go. The “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” se...

‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, Yet Again, Proves His Best Days Are Behind Him

Andrew Crump

February 4, 2022 2:00 pm

News, Reviews

Woody Allen’s decade-long downward spiral began after making “Midnight in Paris” in 2011 and following it up with a series of movies ranging from bad to worse to worse than that: “Irrational Man,” “Wonder Whee...

‘Palm Trees And Power Lines’ Review: The Dynamics Of Sexual Predation Are Played To A Dark, Logical Conclusion [Sundance]

Andrew Crump

January 26, 2022 3:40 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Every so often, the movies like to argue with themselves by dropping two versions of the same story within spitting distance of one another: “Dante’s Peak” and “Volcano,” “Deep Impact,” and “Armageddon.” The o...

‘blood’ Review: Carla Juri & Takeshi Ueno Carry A Meandering Drama Of Small Gestures [Sundance]

Andrew Crump

January 26, 2022 11:59 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

If two people who lack a common language want to communicate, they’ll find a way to communicate. The characters in “blood,” the first new film from Bradley Rust Gray in a decade, don’t exactly lack a common la...

‘The Afterparty’ Review: Lord & Miller’s Apple TV+ Series Takes A Laid-Back Approach To Genre-Hopping

Andrew Crump

January 19, 2022 12:44 pm

News, Reviews, Television

We should all be so lucky to have Tiffany Haddish sit us down for an unauthorized police interrogation, and stipulate that our witness statements be delivered in the form of a specific movie genre. What fun! E...

‘Agnes’ Review: The Genre Subversion Of This Horror Nunspolitation Compels You

Andrew Crump

December 22, 2021 2:33 pm

News, Reviews

Consumers demand choice, and industry obliges. Creamy or crunchy peanut butter; diet or regular soda; dark or milk chocolate; Budweiser or cocktails wrung out of stale urinal cakes. In 2021, choice means enjoy...

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2021

Andrew Crump, Rodrigo Perez and Andrew Bundy

December 16, 2021 3:26 pm

Features, News

“The movies are back, baby!” went the refrain this summer, up to, during, and continuously after the heavenly 10-day stretch around June where everything looked like it might really go back to normal, actual n...

‘Station Eleven’ TV Review: HBO Max’s Post-Apocalyptic Drama Is Essential Discomfort Viewing

Andrew Crump

December 16, 2021 10:34 am

News, Reviews, Television

Nature triumphs. Green burgeons over streets, along concrete foundations and pillars; a handful of feral hogs snuffle, root, rut in the overgrowth. The land is absent of any traces of mankind save for what the...

The Best Cinematography Of 2021

Andrew Crump and The Playlist Staff

December 13, 2021 1:51 pm

Features, News

We celebrate the movies at this time of year, and in the wild rush to praise directors and actors for all that nifty directing and acting they did over the last 365 days, we all tend to forget that cinema is a...

’14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible’ Aims High But With Too Broad A Scope [Review]

Andrew Crump

November 29, 2021 3:06 pm

News, Reviews

Back in 2019, Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal “Nims” Purja got it in his head that he should summit every eight-thousander, the 14 mountains on Earth that stand taller than 8,000 meters above sea level. Summit the...

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