Embrace of The Serpent: Undiscovering The River (Part 1)
Embrace of the Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra, 2016) puts forth an Amazonian landscape that [...]
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl: Stream Of Consciousness Anime
I watched Masaaki Yuasa’s 2017 feature-length anime, Night Is Short, Walk on [...]
Kultfilm: Escapism as Propaganda in Die Feuerzangenbowle
The winter holidays and dawn of the new year are usually times [...]
Streaming: Let’s Keep This Short
DVD’s have always held an essence of nostalgia for me. Growing up, [...]
Netflix: The Studio Necromancer
These days, when we are edging toward the renaissance of every major [...]
Shirley and the Essence of a Shirley Jackson
For all intents and purposes, Rose Nesmer never existed. In a “biopic” [...]
A Modern Hollywood Franchise (Ironically, Part 2)
When Creed (dir. Ryan Coogler, 2015) was officially announced, it garnered some [...]
Kuroneko: On Rape-Revenge and The Monstrous Feminine *TW (rape)
Kuroneko (dir. Kaneto Shindo, 1968) brims with beautiful, haunting images; low-key lighting [...]
All Quiet On Set: Exploring The Soundscapes Reverberating Through Blade Runner and Akira (Part 2)
Silence impregnated the room the first time I watched Akira. "What the f** just [...]
Turkish-German Cinema: Culture-Clash and Assimilation in Almanya: Welcome to Germany
Companion piece to “Turkish-German Cinema: Displacement and Diaspora in Fatih Akin’s Head-On.” [...]