Derek was the only engineer at Northeastern University taking a class on German film and turning a sociology research paper into an examination of Scorsese’s work. Now in Austin, TX, he blatantly abuses his Netflix account on the reg, although his List mocks him as it proudly sits healthily above 200. He continues to fight the stigma that being good at math means you are not any no good at writing. I good write, very much.
I came to the horror genre late. There’s a story that involves Killer Klowns and a terrified little boy, but that’s a story for another time. The experience led me to miss out on years of genuine scares because once you become an adult, it gets a lot harder to be scared. Regardless of the frequency…
Dirty, free, high, loving, and smelly are all words that I would readily use to describe a hippie. Or at least, how I would describe the Halloween costume version of a hippie. That’s the thing, I was born well after the era of free love, so my image…
It can be really nice to go into a film blank. No expectations, no idea, no concern. It’s the way we most classically enjoy stories. Someone just starts talking and you listen, letting them aurally guide you on a journey to some mystery location. So I urge you, don’t read this review, at least not yet. Go against…
Full disclosure, Jean-Marc Vallée has never really done anything for me as a filmmaker. I thought Dallas Buyers Club had some nice performances but was bland overall and Wild was frustratingly grating and I never understood the love that it received. His films struck me as…
With the advancing front of technology and the growing streaming options, film is undergoing something of a democratization. If you want to make a film, it is getting easier and easier to actually…
There aren’t many films with a nun at their center without the words Sister or Act in their title. Far fewer start by plastering a Marilyn Manson quote over the screen as if they are the words of scripture. But…
When I moved to Boston for college I remember hearing about a weird law that precluded more than four women from sharing the same residence. The story went that as soon as a house hit that magic female number it was deemed a brothel. It was something that people laughed about. What an absurd and antiquated…
It’s kind of amazing just how ubiquitous improv has gotten. I remember growing up on the British Whose Line Is It Anyway? and thinking that this fun bit of acting games was endlessly entertaining. But this was a time when improv was more ice breaker than craft building, when the thought…
Early in my screening of Pet I was struck with concern. All signs pointed to this piece of genre fare being something recycled and typical. Its main character was a strange loner…
At the center of Alex Taylor’s Spaceship is a group of cyber goth teenagers (which is apparently a thing now). These adolescents troll about expounding on the deeper meanings of life, toiling inconsequentially on the tenants of suicide, and generally not concerning…