** Warning: This post containers spoilers for a film still relatively new. ** Upfront: while at first distrustful of the updated Suspiria (2018), I came to love it over the course of its two-and-a-half-hour runtime. Luca Guadagnino clearly studied the … Continue reading →
The Craft (1996) is basically the Emo Witch Chick Starter Pack film. I am proudly proclaiming myself to be a member of that club: I practiced paganism until my mid-20s starting in my teens, and to this day, I still … Continue reading →
I’ve both read Richard Matheson’s novel What Dreams May Come and watched its 1998 film adaptation. Some side with Matheson and criticize the film’s significant plot changes and thematic exclusions, including an emphasis on New Age beliefs. Personally, I find … Continue reading →
Fairy tales have always been my jam. People tend to point to the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, but if that’s all you know, then I want you to check out some of the even older stuff, like Giambattista … Continue reading →
You know what makes me happy? Being safe and warm in my living room, bundled under a blanket, where nothing can get me. I am an indoor kid, and I am proud of that fact. That doesn’t stop me from … Continue reading →
Full disclosure: I was not as pumped for the Twin Peaks revival as my friends were. Yes, I know, it was supposed to be wonderful. We were all supposed to cry tears of Lynchian joy but I just couldn’t bring myself … Continue reading →
I’ll be upfront, this one moves a bit slowly for me. However, that doesn’t entirely rule me out from recommending A Dark Song, a film by Liam Gavin (his directorial debut). A Dark Song is the story of Sophia (Catherine … Continue reading →
