Like my interest in films overall, my taste in horror films – one of my very favorite genres – also tends to be more cerebral, as I think my blurbs…
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(53) Onibaba (1964, Kaneto Shindō) Onibaba is one of the best exercises I’ve ever seen in understanding how humanity can be dominated by our baser selves. More pointedly, the filmmakers…
(38) The Substance (2024, Coralie Fargeat) I must say that after watching The Substance a second time, my view of it has changed a bit. Perhaps because I was more…
Full Length Blogs Coming: For the top tier of my list, I am just going to write short blurbs for now (or, well, relatively speaking since a couple of my…
So, for me, Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson) is just such a difficult film to reconcile. On the one hand, it is just such a powerful and…
Jordan Peele’s film Nope is one of those confounding films, so full of rich signifiers and symbolisms and yet also Peele not obviously connecting all of them. After four plus…
So, for two projects I’m doing, I re-watched The Witch (2016, Robert Eggers) and I must say that my response to it was much different than when I first watched…
While screening the most important films of 2014 (see Favorite Films: 2014), I re-screened the Jim Jarmusch film Only Lovers Left Alive. I screened the film when it first came…
Disturbingly, Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency suggests a sociopathy in America, making the film (and novel) American Psycho even more relevant today. As I’ve said elsewhere (see my horror…