Our Unseen 1990s Classics Bookend an Outstanding Movie Decade
The 90s was a diverging time in cinema. As someone who grew up in the decade and found my ...
On this installment of ZekeTalk, St. Louis filmmaker Paul Hibbard discusses his new horror film festival, Hysteria Fest as well as his award-winning short horr...
This time, our reviewers were hard at work, tackling films from 1911-1920. Short films continued to be made available to the public but some of the films became quite longer. Film editing was more creatively employed in storytelling on film.
Filmmaker Julia Ducournau Takes us on one Unrelentingly Disturbingly Unique but Ultimately Heartfelt Ride
DIRECTED BY JULIA DUCOURNAU/FRENCH/2021
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According to my Letterboxd page, I watched over 250 horror films this year. Almost 125 of those were new movies. Out of those, here are my top 10 ho...
reset and needed to tie back into the first and that the sequels are all "inferior"- a direct quote from characters talking about the thinly-veiled Stab sequels. Progressiveness was always at the forefront of this property, not a need to Make Scream Great Again, and take the franchise and give it the same treatment as sputtering franchises that need these rebootquels. This feels like it was made by the kind of movie watcher who always says without much thought that "the first is always the best" and "the book is always better", when that is not always the case.
Censor is, at its heart, a very anti-censorship movie. Bailey-Bond makes it clear that the censors are the weak, and as for any problems with violent films and their approach to women, Bailey-Bond seems to know the answer isn't to censor, but rather, more women like her getting behind a camera and making more movies like Censor.
Ultimately, you don't have to care about the royals to care about Spencer. This is just intoxicating filmmaking, masterful acting, and a Jonny Greenwood score that should be awarded on Oscar night.
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
