Tag Archives: Violence

As the camera fades up, the first image audiences are met with is a woman dressed in traditional garb, gesturing for the camera. It plays out like a parody of a bad sitcom, complete with cutesy gestures and goofy interactions complete ...

For those who are intrigued by director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s self-professed love of silent cinema, The Tribe (2015) is both a delightful experience—paying homage to that earlier form of cinematic expression—and a shocking display of frank sexuality and brutality on a ...

  1971’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song is widely regarded as having initiated the Blaxploitation genre; although an argument can be made that Shaft, also released in 1971 and in production before the release of Sweet Sweetback, equally contributed. They proved ...

While October proves to be the—rightfully so—month of terror for Twilight Time, releasing films such as The Blob (1988), Audrey Rose (1977), The Vanishing (1993), and The Believers (1987), September is marked by the brand’s focus on war, rebellion, and ...