of the 1970s
After a decade of increasing social, political, and cultural unrest around the world, the seventies found Hollywood shifting into the structural norms that we currently recognize and are beginning to push back against in our current era. The Civil Rights…
The Second Day of the Rest of Your Life: Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
“If we were vampires and death was a joke We’d go out on the sidewalk and smoke And laugh at all the lovers and their plans I wouldn’t feel the need to hold your hand Maybe time running out is…
Review| Social Animals (2018)
The internet and its wave of social media platforms have provided a new breeding ground for documentaries. When information about everything is available with a click at any time, questions of interpersonal communication, ethics, privacy, among other concerns present themselves…
The Unearthing of the Invisible Face of Horror: Horror Noire (2019)
There is something strangely poetic about watching a horror documentary while laying in a chair having plasma separated from one’s own blood. It makes it doubly poetic watching a documentary about the history of African Americans in horror film. Blood,…
Split Decision: Glass (2019)
Sometimes our writers don’t agree. Most of the time it’s hilarious, all of the time it’s entertaining. And when those disagreements are so intractable, so irreconcilable, we put them in the ring and let them sort it out with verbal…
My Bottom Five 2018: Blake I. Collier
Unlike my top ten films list, my bottom five were rather easy to select; but probably more controversial than most lists. When I hate a movie, I actively despise it and the more praise that gets heaped on it—if praise…
of the 1960s
As we continue into the 1960s, we see, once again, another dramatic shift in the film industry. Theater palaces are being forgotten in the wake of the creation of multiplexes. As history proves time and time again, capitalism stokes the…
My Top Ten 2018: Blake I. Collier
There’s a compulsion in me that says my inability to see every movie released in a year renders my list futile. It’s just another variation on the “fear of missing out.” As I made this year’s futile list, I recognized…
Splitting the Divine Hares of Harvey (1950) & Donnie Darko (2001)
“We must all face reality sooner or later, Dowd.” “Well, I have wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.” —Dr. Raymond Sanderson & Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey “Why are…
Of The 1950s
It would not be long until the boom of Hollywood in 1946 would begin to crumble under the weight of paranoia and scandal. The marks of war still remained and the claws of global dissension began to creep into the…