Review| Crawl (2019)
The horror genre, since its inception, has busied itself with social commentary from macro to micro. Standouts have been made across that spectrum. It is one of the many flexible components of genre-filmmaking: the ideas driving the films can be…
Of The 1910s
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! –tear up the planks! here, here! –It is the beating of his hideous heart!” –Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” “In [Thomas] Dixon’s book The Clansman, rape is actual, not…
Review| Eleganssi
Making its premiere at the 2016 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Virpi Suutari’s Eleganssi is a twenty-six minute documentary that offers a glimpse into the gentlemen’s hunting culture of the Finnish upper class, wherein smartly dressed men and their purebred…