“It” Proves That Children Are The Perfect Heroes Of Horror

Another day, another piece about It, and also, by pure, happiest of coincidences, another piece for Polygon. This time, I’m on about the child heroes of It, arguing that children make the best heroes in all of horror cinema. (They do! The reasons are few but, if you ask me, they’re pretty persuasive. Then again, I wrote … Continue reading →

Hollywood Has Reached Peak ’80s Nostalgia

If you know me, you know that unchecked and irrational nostalgia for the 1980s, whether in real life or in film or in television or literally frigging anything, makes me want to hurl. So imagine my delight to find that It doesn’t indulge in nostalgia; it just reroots the King story in the 1980s, with only … Continue reading →