In November, we celebrated Godzilla's 63rd birthday. The big guy with atomic breath is still going strong with his recent series reboots in Japan and in the United States. Doesn’t look a day over...
When it comes to social issues filmmaking, are there any advantages to being an “outsider” to the community one is documenting? I recently put that question to a diverse group of award-winning...
Welcome to Noir-vember, a month long celebration of shady heroes, cunning femme fatales, ineffective police, and suspense! Whether film noir should be considered its own genre or a specific set of...
Before Star Trek: Discovery premiered, Michelle Yeoh’s accent received some attention. Soon after the release of a trailer, people started talking about the fact that Yeoh, a Chinese-Malaysian...
Before the witching hour strikes on this Halloween, we need to have a talk about lucha libre. Why? Because, well, it's Halloween. Lucha libre's most famed and recognizable attribute is masked...
As Spooky Season reaches its peak and we enter the transition into cider and “should I turn the heat on now?” season, allow me now to take you on a nostalgic journey through one of my favorite...
As a child raised on B-grade horror movies on cable and The Twilight Zone, I had aspirations of becoming a horror host. I couldn't wait to have my own horror pun name and my own local public...
There I was in my local park, watching a special outdoor showing of The Creature From the Black Lagoon in a lawn chair, fighting off mosquitos coming for my precious blood. There was a point in the...
For giallo and Italian horror fans, 2017 has brought quite a bit of excitement. First, it was announced that Synapse Films had finally completed their 4K restoration of Dario Argento's classic...
I've been an avid Sundance Channel watcher for many years, for better or for worse. From the good old cinephile-focused days to the current, slightly more commercial with a hint of edgy times, I feel...
