“Robert Eggers Is Ready to Do Worse Than The Lighthouse”

Note: “Worse” as in “worse for the people who make movies with him,” because “The Lighthouse” owns very, very hard. Continue reading →

Interview: Robert Eggers & Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Witch”

As promised: my interview with Robert Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy, respectively the director and lead actress on The Witch, that one film I won’t shut up about. I can’t say that this posting means I will shut up about the film for forever – I will be shocked if I don’t circle back around to it … Continue reading →

Review: The Witch, 2016, dir. Robert Eggers

There’s not a lot that I have to say about Roger Eggers’ The Witch that isn’t perfectly encapsulated by a single line from Drew McWeeny’s review out of Sundance 2015. “I’m not sure how you explain what you want in scenes like these to kids,” he wrote of one specific and electrifying moment midway through the … Continue reading →

“A ‘Carnival of Souls’ At ‘The Lighthouse'”

One of the best horror movies all time. One of the best horror movies of 2019. One attempt at tying them both together. Continue reading →

“Great Movie Moments in Farting History”

Let me tell you: I had a real gas writing this piece. I trumpeted my enthusiasm the whole time I worked on it, no ifs, ands, or…buts. I can do this all day, by the way. Continue reading →

Review: Thoroughbreds, 2018, dir. Cory Finley

If I’m a fan of only two things in this world, it’s a) Intimate, small-scale, character-driven horror-thrillers about the inhumanity of humans, and b) Anya Taylor-Joy So there. (I’m a fan of a great deal many more things than a) and b), of course, but work with me here for once.) I talked to Taylor-Joy … Continue reading →

Review: The Wailing, 2016, dir. Na Hong-jin

It’s a quantifiable fact that I love the cinema of South Korea, thanks largely to the work of Park Chan-wook, whose magnum opus Oldboy remains one of my favorite movies of all time (of all time). But a decade and change after getting into Korean film, I have come to see Park as a gateway filmmaker, … Continue reading →

The Real Life Horrors That Inform The Witch

In case you don’t already know: I really liked Robert Eggers’ The Witch. A lot, in fact! So much that apart from that there review I just linked, I also wrote this nifty little piece about some of the film’s historical and cultural foregrounding. The long and short of it is that 17th century New England … Continue reading →