Category: Feature Articles

FEAR OF THE WORKING MAN: CLASS CONFLICT AND MASCUL...

Posted by Martyn Conterio | May 13, 2021 | Feature Articles, Slider | 1

Rooting for the Underdogs: Resiliency, Loyalty, and Bonding in the Non-Horror Work of Don Coscarelli

by Chris Hallock | Jan 26, 2022 | 0

Don Coscarelli was the youngest film director to secure distribution from a major studio for his...

I am a Pretty Piece of Flesh: Celebrating the sonic Ecastacy of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet (1996)

by Miniature Malekpour | Jan 20, 2022 | 0

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene; in a land of faux-immortality, from ancient grudge to new...

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), Tommy (1975), and the Culture of Celebrity.

by Jerome Reuter | Jan 17, 2022 | 0

Celebrity has long been a cultural fixation. As individuals who live in a consumer-based economy,...

Quintessential Exploitative Revenge: Death Wish II (1982)

by Dave J. Wilson | Jan 3, 2022 | 0

Death Wish (1974) is a gritty, thought-provoking, vigilante crime drama, steeped in realism, a...

Bonded By Blood: 50 Years of the Lone Wolf and Cub Films

by Johnny Restall | Dec 30, 2021 | 0

While the Lone Wolf and Cub series celebrates the traditional Bushido samurai code, as embodied by Ogami, it does not shy away from criticising the hypocrisies and injustices of the conservative social order of the time.

Bubblegum Ninjas: Camp, Kobayashi, and the Psychedelic Grandeur of Black Tight Killers

by Keith Allison | Dec 22, 2021 | 0

Japanese studio Nikkatsu survived the privations of the immediate post-War years thanks to...

A Fish Out of Water Descends into Hell: An Appreciation of Killing Zoe

by William O’Donnell | Dec 15, 2021 | 0

Reservoir Dogs (1992)and Pulp Fiction (1994)cast a long shadow over 1990s cinema, so much so that...

La Llorona: Man As Monster

by Kevin Cooney | Dec 11, 2021 | 0

In Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona (2019), only an atemporal and supernatural figure like La Llorona can deliver a transcendental justice befitting the abominable offenses committed by a man more real than we want to believe.