God, yes, meta-docs, just inject that right into my veins, please. Continue reading
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Review: Body at Brighton Rock, 2019, dir. Roxanne Benjamin
An instructional film about what to do when you’re alone on a mountain overlook and there’s a corpse and possibly also a ghost or a bear. Continue reading
Paste Magazine’s 15 Best Horror Movies, 2017 Edition
Maybe I’m spoiled on 2016, but I don’t know that I feel 2017 was a particularly great year for horror: Just a good year led by some new classics (a’la Get Out and It Comes at Night and Prevenge), with a handful of great to really solid efforts backing them up (Personal Shopper, It, Raw, XX, Creep 2), and also mother!, … Continue reading
Why Female-Driven Horror Movies Are More Timely Than Ever
Gang: It’s been a gross, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. It’s been a gross, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for a slew of reasons, but I’m here today to talk about the Harvey Weinstein scandal (which isn’t quite a “scandal,” because sexual abuse isn’t scandalous; it’s criminal). Because I am me, … Continue reading
The 10 Best Movies in Theaters Right Now (March 10th Edition)
We’re back with Paste Magazine’s routine and newly evergreen “10 best movies in theaters” feature! (Meaning: We’re going to update this sucker on a regular basis without remaking a new list every time the month changes over. Seems more efficient, yeah?) This round-up features, among other films, XX, Get Out, Kong: Skull Island, and of course Moonlight, which got … Continue reading
Review: XX, 2017, dir. Roxanne Benjamin, Annie Clark, Karyn Kusama, Jovanka Vuckovic, & Sofia Carrillo
I love a good horror movie anthology, and XX is a good horror movie anthology. It’s also a necessary film if you’re bothering with that whole #52FilmsByWomen hashtag, an endeavor I can neither recommend nor condemn; it’s important to seek out movies by women and watch them, but if half of the 52 films by women … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 