Topical Issues Drive the Finest Cinema of the Past Year
2018 was an interesting year in film. It was a year that didn't pan out the way it was expected....
A Remake That Gets Everything From the Original Right
DIRECTED BY LUCA GUADAGNINO/2018
The original Suspiria is either a pivotal horror classic that has inf...
Halloween's own Prince of Darkness
Of course we all know John Carpenter. Starting with Halloween, his movies have never just been The Fog, or Christine, or In ...
Paul Greengrass Returns to the World of Terrorism in a Gripping Recounting
DIRECTED BY PAUL GREENGRASS/2018
Seven years ago, Norway was under attack for a d...
Bradley Cooper Takes the Stage with Lady Gaga in the Fourth Version of A STAR IS BORN
DIRECTED BY BRADLEY COOPER/2018
Bradley Cooper has crawled up the rung...
Era-defining Movie Star Dead at 82.
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Reynolds and Sally Field in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977).
Earlier this year, I watched Smokey and the Band...
Another Installment of the Webcam Horror Series
DIRECTED BY STEPHEN SUSCO/2018
In Unfriended: Dark Web, Matias (Colin Woodell) has a new laptop. He bought i...
An Article Written by the Director
My name is Paul Hibbard and along with being a film critic for years for ZekeFilm, I am also a film director. I made a film ...
Robert Pattinson Does all he can in Western Comedy
DIRECTED BY DAVID AND NATHAN ZELLNER/2018
In Damsel, Robert Pattinson is Samuel, a dim-witted doofus in l...
Another Year and Another Entry in One of the Most Confounding Horror Series Today
DIRECTED BY GERALD MCMURRAY/2018
The First Purge is a prequel to the prior...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.