The humble creature feature: a movie where some kind of mindless beast, be it natural or mythical, hunts down a bevy of human prey as it marches a path of mayhem through a setting that might otherwise be safe. It's a tale as old as time. Obviously the most legendary such film is Jaws, the 1970's Horror/Drama stand-out that somehow found the sweet spot of combining brilliant, relatable, dynamic characters with true frights and solid action. But it's far from the only such flic

Growing up, whenever I visited my grandparents, their record player was on, and the whole house could hear it. 9 times out of 10, it was the albums Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes or Son of a Sailor. To put it lightly, I was born into a family of Jimmy Buffett fans. With over a million concertgoers attending their performances, Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers Band are a musical act that creates magic. The new documentary Occupational Hazard: The First Coral Ree

Lance Hammer made one film in 2008, won Best Director at Sundance, disappeared for nearly two decades, and came back with Queen at Sea, a movie about a woman, Amanda, watching her mother, Leslie, vanish into dementia while her stepfather keeps having sex with his wife. This is not a gentle return. This is a man who saved up eighteen years of something to say and decided to say all of it at once. What Hammer does with this premise is not what you might expect. This is not a fi