I do love a prologue that perfectly sets up the film it introduces, and one of the nicest ones I’ve seen lately is to be found in Osgood Perkins’ THE MONKEY, based on a short story by Stephen King and turned into an impudent horror film that is scary as hell and twice as funny.… Read More »
WOLF MAN
WOLF MAN starts out promisingly enough establishing a theme of generational trauma and the eeriness of the wild wood while neatly exploring the hunter-becoming-the-hunted idiom. Full points to the excellent cinematography that captures the opalescent otherworldliness of the mist-shrouded Oregon wilderness, and a cast that takes the story seriously, it’s just a shame that said… Read More »
EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS — Titus Kaphar Interview
For EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, his debut narrative feature, renowned artist and MacArthur Fellow Titus Kaphar looked back to the painful, sometimes violent relationship he had with the father, a man struggling with addiction and his own childhood demons. This lyrical, emotionally raw film, populated with Kaphar’s paintings as signs and signals, explores issues of forgiveness, redemption,… Read More »
SPEAK NO EVIL
First, we must speak of trailers that give too much away, something that dampened the exquisite terror of SPEAK NO EVIL for me. Its trailer deprives those who see it of the joy in discovering the twists and turns the story uses in order to turn the film into something other than what we expect… Read More »
KNEE CAP — Rich Peppiatt, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvai Interview
Click here to listen to the interview. Rich Peppiatt convinced the Irish rap group Kneecap to let him tell their story during a long night of drinking. It’s one of the many things we talked about with two members of that group, Móglaí Bap, and JJ DJ Próvai, on July 26, 2024. There was a… Read More »