‘The Shawshank Redemption’ at 30: The Enduring Classic Proves it Can Make it on the Outside
How does a film filled with characters going through existential crises overcome its own to become an enduring classic? When it comes to hailing a... Read More
Retrospective
We’re Not Dunne Yet: A ‘Gone Girl’ 10th Anniversary Retrospective and its Deserved Oscar Legacy
Our relationship to pop culture is deeply personal. Yes, there are numerous monoculture moments, starting with The Beatles and Elvis causing mass hysteria on The... Read More
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: ‘The Third Man’ (1949), ‘Collateral’ (2004) and ‘Green Room’ (2016) [Retrospective]
For most of us, our tedious and boring lives are rarely interrupted with the amount of drama needed for a narrative film. But they could... Read More
Make It a Double Feature: ‘Beach Rats’ and ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’
As we make our way through August, we still feel the muggy summer heat. For this month’s column, I’ve gone with two films for those... Read More
How ‘Sing Sing’ and ‘Ghostlight’ Highlight the Power of Theater as Venues of Survival
Theater and cinema have always had a strange symbiotic relationship. While cinema has, over the decades, become more accessible to view than theater, theater is... Read More
Faith, Heroes, Monsters, Scares, and Twists: Ranking the Films of M. Night Shyamalan
The state of cinema is ravaged with unoriginal, unfulfilling, and downright wasteful popcorn, blockbuster filmmaking. In the past, there used to be an internal process... Read More
The Film We Don’t Speak Of – Revisiting M. Night Shyamalan’s Masterpiece ‘The Village’ 20 Years Later [Retrospective]
The trailer for the upcoming film Trap proudly declares it to be “a new experience in the world of M. Night Shyamalan.” This represents a... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Catwoman’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby’ (2004)
“If you like this movie like i do, your rolling on the floor. Every second is purely genius. If you liked it for real, your... Read More
Make It a Double Feature: Go on the Vacation from Hell with ‘Midsommar’ and ‘Barbarian’
As a horror buff, for the next edition of Make It a Double Feature I’ve chosen two films about trips gone wrong for this month’s... Read More
‘The Blair Witch Project’ at 25: The Birth of Found Footage and the Price of Naive Ambition
Found footage is the cinematic equivalent of an urban legend or a story that campers tell around the fire. Intentionally poor production choices are part... Read More
2026 True/False Film Fest Dispatch #1: ‘The Oldest Person in the World,’ ‘Broken English’ 
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