Patterns of Evidence: Journey to Mount Sinai (2022)

If the message here is that without a support system, grieving people turn into monsters, it’s not really well-delivered and may be flawed as a message itself.

Strangers in a crowd, exchanging glances, looking away, continually managing to run into each other then part ways, end up at the same diner, find they've rented the exact same vehicles, and are then made to travel together to learn once more whether they can both find genuine adoration and companionship again. This really does, in so many words, sum up the foundational gist of of this new feature film from writer Seth Reiss ("The Menu") and director Kogonada ("The Acolyte", "After Yang"). Yet, it's all only the set-up for the REAL wonder of everything that happens before, during, and in the aftermath of a magical, meaningful journey.

The Night Doctor achieves telling an original story in which the pace accelerates progressively while supported by dark aesthetics.

Dracula evolved from a person to a monster and then from a monster to a person.

An artistic approach to the impact of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”.

Shudder makes an incredibly atmospheric docuseries about the darker side of Hollywood mysteries.