Cryptozoo was screened on June 18th as a part of Provincetown International Film Festival 2021. Adult comics artist Dash Shaw and his wife Jane Samborski acting as producer have created an animated feature that defies conventions of the medium in…
The Film Canon: The Great Silence (1968)
At first glance there is little to distinguish between Jean-Louis Trintignant’s spaghetti western protagonist ‘Silence’ and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man with No Name’. But over the course of Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence we see, not only a completely new figure…
Movie Review: The Love Witch
“The Love Witch” is a deceptively simple movie that taps into a whole lot of complex ideas. Of course, the fact that it’s an homage to the Technicolor sexploitation films of the 1960s means it touches on the issues it…
Ouija: Origin Of Evil Review
In 2013’s Oculus, Mike Flanagan made a mirror scary, crafting a dense psychological thriller out of a ubiquitous centerpiece of every household. It seems almost predestined that his path would cross with Ouija. After all, A board of texture paper…
TV Review: Mad Men Series Finale – “Person to Person”
Note: I lost the time to review last week’s penultimate episode although many of my points of thought tie into this finale too, so consider this a double review of sorts Digging into any given episode of Mad Men can…
TV Review: Mad Men (7×12) – “Lost Horizon”
Mad Men opened its sixth season long ago with Don Draper reading Dante’s Inferno and that season served as slow boiling retribution for Don’s many failings and brought his story to its lowest point. Don has since bounced back, though…
TV Review: Mad Men (7×11) – “Time & Life”
If “The Forecast” was about looking towards the future for the characters that populate Mad Men, then “Time & Life” acts as a follow-up that shows the future smacking them in the face, and not the way they wanted it…