Le Petit Mort in Cemetery Man
It is indisputable that Italian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in film history. Italian neorealism inContinue Reading
Author: Eugene Kang
Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyma-
The figure of the Candyman has, in many ways, far extended beyond the film that he was introduced in. IContinue Reading
House: An Exercise in Sincere Camp
Despite its cult status as one of the strangest movies ever to be put to film, House did not startContinue Reading
Fate vs. Free Will in Cure
The late 1990s and the early 2000s were a seminal time for Japanese cinema, specifically in the horror genre. SomeContinue Reading
Blood Diner and the American Art of Excess
The horror comedy can be a tricky genre to pull off, even though both horror and comedy have striking similarities.Continue Reading
Da 5 Bloods ★★★½
Spike Lee has always been an ambitious filmmaker with a strong desire to delve into social issues that demand complexContinue Reading
LX 2048 ★★
LX 2048, the newest film from writer/director Guy Moshe (Bunraku), has unexpected resonance during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the film’sContinue Reading
First Cow ★★★½
Underlying many of Kelly Reichardt’s films is the desire to create human dramas that comment obliquely on the environment whereContinue Reading
You Cannot Kill David Arquette ★★★
In 2008, Misha DeFonseca publicly admitted that her memoir about being raised by wolves after her parents were killed byContinue Reading
Generational Trauma in Ju Dou
The Cultural Revolution in China was a sociopolitical movement spearheaded by Mao Tse-tung that aimed to purge all levels ofContinue Reading
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