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Top 5 Films 2022: Mid-Year Report

It’s over halfway through 2022, so what are my top five films released this year? Let’s start at five and count up: 5. THE NORTHMAN — Robert Eggers has delivered some stunning historical hallucinatory horror with THE WITCH (2015) and THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019). In THE NORTHMAN, Eggers offers the same attention to historical detail, similarContinue reading “Top 5 Films 2022: Mid-Year Report”

Magick, Mayhem, and Little Rubber Monsters

Last night I got to go to “Magick, Mayhem, and Little Rubber Monsters,” a double-feature put on by the podcast Movie Dumpster at the Colonial Theater. Both films were presented on 35mm, and let me tell you, it was a treat. I have lots of thoughts on both films, but for now, the thing thatContinue reading “Magick, Mayhem, and Little Rubber Monsters”

Gateways to the Weird

I can generally find something to appreciate about any film. There are, of course, exceptions. LA LA LAND, for example, left me really bored and miffed, as did AVATAR (please, don’t make me sit through three more of these). But, generally, I have fairly eclectic taste. I love the arthouse and the grindhouse about equally.Continue reading “Gateways to the Weird”

Jeffrey Sconce, Trashing the Academy (part 1)

These are some initial thoughts on Jeffrey Sconce’s “Trashing the Academy: Taste, Excess, and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style,” published in Screen in 1995. The most I could manage with my time this morning was a few short paragraphs, but I look forward to expanding them. In his 1995 essay “Trashing the Academy,” JeffreyContinue reading “Jeffrey Sconce, Trashing the Academy (part 1)”

MALIGNANT (2021) at Fangoria’s Chainsaw Awards

I know, I know, I’m late to the game here. Fangoria’s Chainsaw Awards show streamed live at the end of May, but I finally caught it. Lots of great films got lots of love from the horror community, and the one I was rooting for took home the big prize: MALIGNANT (2021) won best wide-releaseContinue reading “MALIGNANT (2021) at Fangoria’s Chainsaw Awards”

Friday Roundup (#2)

It’s Friday, and I’ve got a roundup. Movie: RRR (2022) Directed by S.S. Rajamouli, RRR may be my favorite movie so far this year, narrowly beating out EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. In fact, the two films have a lot of similarities, including expansive, epic storylines and highly stylized action choreography. RRR, though, is justContinue reading “Friday Roundup (#2)”

FINDING FRANCES (2017)

While technically an episode of Nathan for You, FINDING FRANCES (2017) follows the format of a feature-length documentary. Nathan Fielder decides to help a Bill Gates impersonator (named Bill) from a previous episode find the love of his youth, Frances. Like any Nathan Fielder project, it involves increasingly absurd, awkward, and roundabout attempts to accomplishContinue reading “FINDING FRANCES (2017)”

To Pod or not to Pod

I produced and cohosted a podcast for several years called PTR (which stood for both “Poststructuralist Tent Revival” and “Philosophy Theology and Religion,” you can guess the SEO on the Tent Revival title was… subpar). I don’t have an interest in continuing to do a theology and/or philosophy podcast at the moment, but I’m gettingContinue reading “To Pod or not to Pod”

Identity (2003)

I can admit when I am wrong. In yesterday’s post, I said it was my pick for movie night. It was, in fact, not my pick (apparently I’m next week). Last night we watched IDENTITY (2003). IDENTITY follows a group of strangers stranded at a roadside motel in Nevada during a nasty storm. One atContinue reading “Identity (2003)”