A version of this article originally appeared in issue 21 of Diabolique Magazine, May/June 2014. 1967 was something of a watershed year for Hollywood, during which cultural and critical cache […]
“In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we […]
When talking about Godzilla, either as a film or a cultural icon, one must be careful to distinguish between the “King of the Monsters” who squashes cities underfoot and frequently does […]
WARNING: This review contains spoilers, including a discussion of the film’s ending. Being stranded in outer space is a terror of unfathomable proportions for most. Beyond the purely logistic horrors […]
There is an ephemeral quality to the films of Harmony Korine, the sense of fleeting, unguarded moments, captured perhaps by happenstance, and arranged so loosely as to seem almost plotless. […]
The idea that sacrifice is necessary for success, that effort and expense are required to turn one’s velleity into reality, has long been encapsulated with admirable concision by the epigrammatic […]
“I don’t know if I’m an alcoholic, really,” Kate Hannah says at her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, “I just drink. I drink a lot. And I’ve always drank a lot, […]
Pete and Emma Mandrake’s couples’ brunches seem like a disaster waiting to happen. The men are largely disinterested, focused instead on the score of the UT game and bidding on […]
There’s a school of filmmaking which maintains that the director’s job is simply to hire good actors to perform a good script and then get out of the way. While […]
Expanding upon his usual theme of deception among the British upper class, Julian Fellowes’s directorial debut Separate Lies is a film with enough intelligence and insight to make up for […]
Considering Film 