Reviewing the Classics| Knowing Our Neighbors Outside Our Rear Windows
When Alfred Hitchcock and the horror genre are mentioned in the same breath, the conversation is more than likely revolving around Psycho – Hitchcock’s 1960 classic that single-handedly evolved the horror genre into a new kind of monster. If Psycho…
Oh! The Horror… | Of Making It Through The Film
Blake gets very introspective in this weeks edition of “Oh! The Horror…” as he examines 2010’s “A Serbian Film”. What is it that might drive a person to watch something gratuitously cruel and nasty? Blake dives in head first and concludes, among other things, that “Good film persuades; it makes us feel its truth and meaning. It does not force feed it down our throats.”
Streaming Weekly September 2016 5.0
Teetering on the precipice of October, our Streaming Weekly column stares up at the proverbial moon, dreading its transformation from a regular streaming column into a snarling beast known as “Screaming Weekly”. While you load your silver bullets and stock…
Review| ‘Snowden’ Shows Our Worship of Security
“Most Americans don’t want freedom, they want security.” Citizen Four won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2015. By the time that award show aired, I had watched the documentary three-or-four times with friends, trying to loop as many…
Review| Don’t Breathe (2016)
First thing’s first… Spoilers and sensitive subject matter ahead! I can recall the first time I watched the 1967 thriller, Wait Until Dark, where a group of criminals (led by Alan Arkin) break into the apartment of a blind woman…
Oh! The Horror… of ‘The Id’
It’s a fairly rote story of human reason and scientific progress within the Enlightenment. Educated men seeking to understand something about humanity or the natural world and beginning—and soon becoming obsessed—with experiments on others or, often, themselves. These stories end…
Oh! The Horror… of ‘Darling (2015)’
If Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) succumbed to heavier edits and bought into a Dario Argento-esque aesthetic of blood and gore, the product might look like something akin to Mickey Keating’s 2015 independent feature, Darling. Keating unashamedly wears his Repulsion influence…
Review| Jason Bourne
If you’ve seen any of the previous films in the Bourne franchise, then you have basically seen Jason Bourne (2016) in its entirety. In the end, it’s not so much that the fruition of Paul Greengrass’s long-awaited reunion with Matt…
Review| The Bourne Ultimatum
There’s a reason Matt Damon said he would only ever come back to the Bourne franchise if Paul Greengrass also returned. With just enough premise to keep these plots moving, it’s the frenetic camera of Greengrass that makes these movies…
Review| The Bourne Supremacy
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is alive and back in this critically acclaimed sequel and this time it’s personal! Actually, it was pretty personal in the original film. In 2002’s The Bourne Identity Jason had to re-discover who he was after…