Hey all; I can't tell you how touched I am by your support during all this. I wanted to let you know that I've been struggling through a depressive episode but that You Love to See It will be caugh...
2020-04-25 18:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post
@omenids' beautiful cover for Milk Teeth, my upcoming collection of short medieval horror fiction! It's been delayed for EXCITING REASONS that I can't talk about yet, but it should be coming soon!<...
2020-04-18 22:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post
What the fuck is this movie? How did it get funded? Why is Vincent Cassell here? Is it even a movie, or did a Mortal Kombat game’s character select screen gain sentience and esc...
2020-04-10 21:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In all of film there’s nothing quite like Addams Family Values, a campy collection of gothic and violently absurd vignettes loosely joined together by a single gleeful, frustrated, malev...
2020-04-10 17:31:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe instructors tell them to masturbate before their drills. Focus is crucial, hard-ons a distraction. They do it together, facing away from each other, looking at the porn they’re given. Sleek t...
2020-04-08 00:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey gang, given that theaters are closed, I'm going to start doing 2-4 repertory reviews a month. I'll be watching and writing about classic and contemporary films, and if there's anything you'd pa...
2020-04-03 19:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The first forty minutes of Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is all domino-setting and wisecracks. Sam Neill humiliates a middle schooler, Richard Attenborough says “spared no expense” a hal...
2020-04-03 04:48:04 +0000 UTC View Post
When Patrick Bateman kills women, he uses tools to do it. A chainsaw for the sex workers he lures to his apartment; a nail gun when he considers murdering Jean, his secretary. When he murders men, ...
2020-03-27 16:50:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The Mask of Zorro, which in 1998 came hot on the heels of the ultra-macho action movies of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s and just before the modern wave of snarky, factory-produced bloc...
2020-03-21 04:15:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1972 film about the life of St. Francis of Assisi, begins with the young Francesco di Bernardone returning gravely ill from war with Perugia...
2020-03-15 19:34:56 +0000 UTC View Post
From the first moment they form, our memories are dying. Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire deals with the illusory permanence of art and the fleeting nature of love and passion,...
2020-03-09 05:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
As horror author Garth Marenghi once said, “I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.” Nowhere does that philosophy prove out more definitively than in Francis Ford Coppola’s...
2020-03-06 03:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s the little things that make for good suspense. A shot of an empty doorway lingering just long enough to let the viewer’s expectations about what will or won’t come through it make a full...
2020-03-01 01:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The soundtrack to Casino, Martin Scorsese’s 1995 gangster opus, is of a piece with much of the director’s other material about organized crime. It’s a collage of towering classical m...
2020-02-29 04:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The baby in David Lynch’s 1977 nightmarish arthouse feature Eraserhead embodies a complex synthesis of fears and anxieties. With its labored, phlegmy breathing, frail neck, and filmy eye...
2020-02-21 20:57:46 +0000 UTC View PostHe did not come in a procession. Nor did he come hooded, as was usual, but barefoot and bare-headed, his dark hair cropped to dusty stubble. He was beautiful, thought Giulia de Codico, the merchant...
2020-02-20 07:50:14 +0000 UTC View Post
"You look at me sometimes." Five words, and in them we can see the entire soul of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Scotty, a lonely, socially awkward young gay man living on the margins of the 1970s Calif...
2020-02-14 06:44:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Like its protagonist, jeweler and gambling addict Howard “Howie Bling” Ratner, Uncut Gems is an opaque, abrasive, overwhelming experience. Its fairytale synth score and manic, scrabbli...
2020-02-12 03:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Tomas Alfredson’s 2011 adaptation of acclaimed novelist John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is an almost pathologically quiet film. Its focus rests not on the knife’s-edge ...
2020-02-10 20:15:30 +0000 UTC View Post
There are four action scenes of note in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey. The second of these, in which Harley Quinn (Margo Robbie) stages a one-woman raid on a Gotham police station, is the fi...
2020-02-10 00:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post
So much of The New Pope's beauty rests in the conscious physicality of its actors, as obviously unique from character to character as the show's voices, faces, and wardrobes. Assente's cur...
2020-02-04 06:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post
A silent observer stands on a shale beach in the north of Scotland, watching people drown. A woman is swept screaming out to sea. A wetsuit-clad swimmer pulls her desperate husband out of the surf ...
2020-02-01 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a certain shock inherent in seeing John Paul III proceed with moderation and decorum through the Papal speeches and ceremonies which Pius XIII upended, tore apart, and used as a chance to...
2020-01-29 00:46:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Aliens, James Cameron’s 1986 action-horror followup to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sleeper hit, starts twice, but don’t mistake that for a stumble. For the first twenty-odd minutes we follow...
2020-01-24 20:56:22 +0000 UTC View Post“One mouthful per worker,” buzzed the queen’s flickering hologram, looming over the line of marching ants. Rugel advanced past the nearest seer — balanced on her forelimbs and cr...
2020-01-23 19:33:24 +0000 UTC View Post“These,” says Billie, tapping a chewed bio-nail against the glass display case. She blows a virulent blue bubble with her chewing gum, then pops it with a quick flex of her tongue and snaps the...
2020-01-21 20:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post
“When I was a boy,” cardinal Gutierrez begins, his melancholy features shifting briefly into a faint smile of nostalgia, “a man took advantage of me.” The way actor Javier Cámara delivers ...
2020-01-21 04:08:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Space cruisers blast at each other point-blank like ships of the line. Clouds of fighters swirl, disintegrate, and reform amid the flurrying laser bolts and plasma shells as our heroes plummet stra...
2020-01-18 03:36:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching the premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope is like inhaling a breath of clean mountain air after a decade spent living in an attic. The cleanly symbolist camera work, the i...
2020-01-14 04:12:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern opens with a close shot of Songlian (Gong Li) assenting with stoic misery to end her university career and marry in accordance with her father and ste...
2020-01-10 21:54:13 +0000 UTC View Post