A Trite Dramatization of the Oslo Peace Accords
An adaptation of the Tony-winning play, Oslo‘s apolitical take on the Israel-Palestine conflict is of little use to anyone.
Hear Jeff Bezos Roar
As FilmCritHulk explained, the media mega-mergers are not only consolidating power in the industry and narrowing what gets produced, they’re also designed to crush the power of industry unions. For…
“A Clockwork Orange” Made Me Long to Be a Monster, But It Only Saw Me as a Victim
In the epic battle between good and evil for the fate of the soul, I had never been the soul in question; I had always been the stumbling block on…
Why You Should Watch The NeverEnding Story as an Adult
The NeverEnding Story was a classic children’s fantasy of the 1980s, right up there with The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Legend, and The Last Unicorn in creating a latticework of terrifying…
Satanic Panics and the Death of Mythos
All the stories in humanity’s history that have had a lasting impact on us, from the Bible to Greek myths to the X-Men franchise, have been rich in meaning beyond…
The French father of Hollywood sci-fi is still planning his masterpiece
Caro is the artist responsible for Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children; a pair of game-changing dystopian fantasy films from France, co-directed with Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) in 1991 and…
30 years in, The Silence Of The Lambs’ Jame Gumb still deserves better
Just like a booger-coated finger a centimeter from your face, The Silence Of The Lambs is impossible to ignore. Similar examples of trans exploitation—films as guilty of poor taste as…
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The Manic Pixie Dream Girl Still Feeds on Insecurity
The manic pixie dream girl trope simply puts down girls who don’t fit the blueprint. Manic pixie dream girls — or rather, the men who write them — feed off…