The previous century was marked by the transformation of horror of the mind and soul to horror of the body and spirit, from childish night fears of ghosts and ghouls to real-life destruction and terror and an abstraction of horror into a genre of culture meant to turn our deepest …
Folks, you know me. You’re the same six people who keep reading this site throughout the years, so I can say with total confidence that I love you one hundred million times more than I love my own family or even a dog. It doesn’t matter which dog, that’s not …
“Welcome to the season premiere of BookTalk. This is our seventeenth season, and of course, we could never have gotten this far without your support. We’ve always aimed to bring you only the very best of in-depth discussions of literature and the fine arts, so of course I’m pleased to welcome …
A lot of factors can contribute to a filmmaker delivering the best work of his career. Circumstances from finding the right cast to discovering the right project to getting the ideal financing can combine to make all the difference in the world. Other times, it’s waiting until exactly the right …
Blade Runner — the original, which is to say whichever of the seemingly endless number of versions that are available thanks to studio meddling and the obsessive recutting of director Ridley Scott — is one of my favorite movies. Ill-received at the time of its release and scorned by some …
Harvey Weinstein is the latest. But he isn’t the last. The news that Weinstein, a prominent movie producer and one of Hollywood’s biggest power players, is at the very least a serial sexual harasser of women and at worst a multiple rapist has been met with varied reactions. It’s not …
Darren Aronofsky wants there to be no confusion about the intent behind his new allegorical whatever-it-is, mother!. (I use his preferred stylization of the title, even after everything he has done to me.) Eschewing such aesthetic values as subtlety and ambiguity, Aronofsky has delivered a psychological horror film that he is …
I don’t remember the Battle of the Sexes; I was far too young for it to penetrate my consciousness at age five, or to make anyone in the suburban enclave where I grew up to have much of a stake in it. But I do remember hearing about it, and, given the …
From the archives of Rig Pigs Fortnightly, thirty of the most likely current candidates for the Truck Driver’s Hall of Fame. PEYTON GROTE. Running canned seafood all over New England and the Mid-Atlantic, Peyton was the first hauler to install an octophonic sound system in his rig. Favorite Physical Graffiti side: 2. …
