Review: Kung Fury (2015) ★★★½
Kung Fury is a Swedish short film (with a runtime of about 30 minutes) written, directed by, and starring David
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Review: M (1931) ★★★★½
As Fritz Lang’s first sound film, M (1931) stands out as a hallmark achievement of the early sound era and
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Review: Mother’s Day (1980) a film by Charles Kaufman
Mother’s Day (1980), written and directed by Charles Kaufman (brother of Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman), tells the story of three
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Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) ★★
There is something to be said for any film that takes risks. And in a sense, every film production takes
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Review: Grabbers (2012) ★★★
Grabbers (2012) is an Irish horror-comedy pub film, written and directed by Jon Wright. The story follows an alcoholic policeman,
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Review: Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) ★★★½
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) was the earliest screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Though the filmmakers never had
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Review: Creep (2004) ★★
Like so many horror films before it, Creep (2004) starts off strong and eventually succumbs to a weak script, mediocre performances,
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Metzger’s Women: Gender Representations and Visual Abstraction in ’60s Sexploitation
In the years following the 1948 Paramount Case, independent cinema gained a competitive edge in the United States. As the
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Review: Ghost in the Shell (2017) ★★★
In Ghost in the Shell (2017), technology has advanced to the point that humans can replace their own body parts with
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Review: Sherlock Jr. (1924) ★★★★½
Silent films don’t usually tickle my fancy. We are so far removed from the “Golden Age” of silent filmmaking that
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Politics in Horror: American Anxieties Play Out on Screen
It is not new or revolutionary to connect the political and social realities of our times to films that we
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Sex and the Creation of Horror in It Follows
Since the earliest days of horror films, sex has been a key component of the genre. Sometimes the sexual content
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Cinematography and Style in Rebel Without a Cause
Very few films, even today, accurately portray the complexities of teenage life. It is an age group with which it
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Analysis: Confession of a Child of the Century
Sylvie Verheyde’s 2012 film, Confession of a Child of the Century, based on Alfred de Musset’s 1836 semi-autobiographical novel, tells
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Human Nature and Technology in Science Fiction
Since the earliest days of cinema, films have explored the role of technology in science fiction. The moving picture, in
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Stoicism in Film: Changing Lanes
True stoicism in film is somewhat rare. Many films put particular emphasis on emotion and its impact in our daily
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Nebraska, the Taiga, and An Escape from Modernity
There are probably no two films that, at first glance, appear less comparable than Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and Werner Herzog’s
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