High Art: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
For Nan Goldin “survival was an art,” photography “a sublimation for sex,” and the art world “bullshit. Times Square was real life.” These are just some of the insights gleaned from Laura...
Category: Film and movies
“A tyrant resplendent in hand-made trouser suits”: Tár
Lydia Tár is a colossus. She is a self-made maestro, her peerless achievements carefully curated by herself via Wikipedia and an extended interview with Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker Festival. She...
“A Technicolor horror show”: Pearl
If there was any justice in the world, then not only should Mia Goth be nominated for an Oscar for her titular performance in Pearl she should win hands down. Goth conceived the character alongside...
“Enough of America’s bullshit”: Emily The Criminal
Emily Benetto has had enough of America’s bullshit. She’s barely existing in Los Angeles, drowning in student debt to the tune of $70,000 and can’t get a well-paid job because of a felony...
I rewatched The Omen to celebrate Halloween (and the story of my birth)
The first movie I ever saw was The Omen. It may sound a little strange because of the genre, but I was in my mom's belly and, a couple of hours later I was born. If anyone asks me about a movie that...
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Thirty years on, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is still the film that haunts me the most. I can feel it scratching behind my eyes, screaming in my ears and shrieking at my soul. Consciously, I’m...
The witches are back…: Hocus Pocus 2 review
For the past several decades, Disney's family feature Hocus Pocus has stood out as a Halloween classic. Regardless of the television or movie releases scheduled for October, fans continue to watch...
Blonde: “biographical fiction meshed with misery porn”
We’re hurtling through fire in 1933, the hyperspace of hell circling a forlorn automobile, winding its way to the Hollywood Hills in search of false salvation. Inside, a young Norma Jean watches...
September 2022 horror streaming round-up
As my mood fluctuates wildly between hatred, despair, and grief due to wretched state of the UK under this despicable Tory government, I have increasingly found myself drawn to the horror genre on...
Human MOOP: Matter Out of Place
Nikolaus Geyrhalter has described his static-camera, nearly architecturally-composed, observational docs as “archival material, which people will dig out in 50 or 100 years.” Which makes perfect...