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- @dialacina glad you enjoyed it! I have another couple of these in me, including one on settler colonialism and how… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 12 minutes ago
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Tag Archives: film
A Bibliographic Resource for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011)
I’m planning on writing about Melancholia in the near future, and a short fact-finding mission to get a lay of the land of the scholarship on the film turned into something quite different (and much larger) than I imagined. What … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged bibliography, film, lars von trier, melancholia
On Free Fire
I’ve just finished watching Free Fire, the newest film from director Ben Wheatley (and Amy Jump who he cowrote and coedited it with), and while it’s very late I have some thoughts I want to get down about the film. 1. … Continue reading
“The horror of life itself”: Wes Craven on his films
Christopher Sharrett – “‘Fairy Tales for the Apocalypse’: Wes Craven on the Horror of Film,” 1985.
Posted in Film
Tagged film, horror, life, wes craven
On Evil Dead (2013)
The word of mouth that I heard about the remake / reboot of Evil Dead was that it fundamentally misunderstood the thing that made the Evil Dead trilogy so great in the first place: the comedy. There’s a zaniness to the Raimi original that … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged evil dead, evil dead 2013, film, horror
On X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
I. SOME HISTORY Fox’s X-Men franchise has had more hits than misses. 2000’s X-Men was an excellent introduction to the world and the film franchise’s core character Wolverine. Following three years later, X2 solidified many of the themes that director Bryan Singer evoked in the first … Continue reading
On The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
1. When Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released, there was a longform internet discussion on the nature of the Mary Sue. Debates raged over whether Rey, one of the protagonists of that film, was in that camp of figures. Critics of … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged dungeons and dragons, fantasy, film, the last witch hunter, vin diesel
On The Last Door: Season 1
The Last Door is a strange little point and click horror game that is (I believe) going to stretch over two seasons. It has a lot to love in it, and it has a familiar aesthetic for anyone who has played … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Video Games
Tagged film, lovecraft, roman polansky, the last door, the ninth gate, video game
