I’ve got a theory that I stand by relentlessly: the stories that mainstream American films refuse to make are the treasures of the European arthouse. The past decade has seen some truly memorable and unique horror films coming out of Europe, and France, in particular, continues to push boundaries of horror cinema. Moreover, one of…

I feel like horror may be the most underappreciated genre – not that it isn’t popular (other than comedy and the occasional action blockbuster, there are few genres that are as enduring as horror), but rather that it is too often written off as merely being “scary movies”, and nothing more than just the folly…

There was no reason why I would not enjoy The Witch, as it had all the signs of being a great film. It is an independent horror film that is also the debut of an audacious young talent, it is set in a period of American history that I find profoundly fascinating and it has…

“There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us” These words appear in Henrik Ibsen’s 1881 play Ghosts, and while this play doesn’t have anything directly related to the…

We really need to talk about Hereditary. Every word of what I am about to say is absolutely and undoubtedly true, rather than being the result of hyperbole or over-emotional excitement, and I stand by everything I am about to express. I have taken time to absorb this experience, and pondered my multitudes of thoughts…

I was one of many people who expressed their unrestrained sorrow when Steven Soderbergh announced his retirement from filmmaking in 2013. A director who rarely remained stagnant, and defied genre and conventions in the endeavor to create a fulfilling and fascinating filmography, one that featured films that may have varied in quality, but were all…

Last year, quite a cinematic anomaly occurred – Jordan Peele, the goofy comedian best known for his surreal and unrestrained sketch comedy stylings, wrote and directed Get Out, a film that entirely obliterated the expectations of every single viewer. The film was a scathing social commentary, a darkly hilarious statement on society, and an utterly…

Let me not be vague – for the first hour of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, I absolutely despised it. Consider that I have yet to even marginally dislike anything David Lynch has done, nevermind outright resent something he has made, this was quite an uncharacteristic experience. For reasons that will be explained in…

If history is to be believed (which, by its very definition, it should, despite a rise in revisionism and challenging of historical institutions, but I digress), theatre has its earliest roots in Ancient Greece, where the Antiquity and its plethora of historically-significant artists and thinkers, gave rise to the conventions that are now popularly known…