By Something Wicked This Way Comes Between 2016’s Don’t Breathe and Barbarian, there’s an emergent sub-genre of horror: Detroit Dystopia. Both films put the urban wreckage of the city’s broken ecosystem under the spotlight to set the scene for unspeakable horrors. Barbarian, if not directly inspired by Fede Alvarez’s 2016 horror hit, shares a lot of the same DNA and…
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) Secrets are buried just beneath the surface. One thing I think is true of criticism is that you have to approach any given genre fairly. You’re not the person to review horror movies if you hate horror movies because you’re not going to appreciate how
Grimmfest 2022 Film Feature – Do Not Disturb
Directed by: John Ainslie Written by: John Ainslie Starring: Kimberly Laferriere, Rogan Christopher, Janet Porter Grimmfest Feature by: Darren Tilby Synopsis: Chloe and Jack travel to Miami for their honeymoon. Amidst the flashy neon and sunny beaches, they decide that a peyote experience will strengthen their marriage. Unbeknownst to them,
HEAT (1995): A Cinema Scholars Oral History
Introduction The film Heat was released on December 15, 1995. As director Michael Mann’s fifth feature film, it carried with it quite a sizable amount of heat of its own, so to speak. For more than four decades Mann has been at the forefront of the stylistic crime/drama genre. Dating back to his feature film […]
The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Three, Episode Eighteen: “The One with the Hypnosis Tape”/”Rebound Bro”
Natalie and David attempt to get over their nicotine addiction with Chandler in “The One with the Hypnosis Tape” and get over Ted with Barney in “Rebound Bro.” Friends season three, episode eighteen, “The One with the Hypnosis Tape”: Phoebe…
