REEL DARK, a collection of masters, has arrived
Andrew
The converse is not true, but all monsters are hybrids, or at least John Locke thought so, and although I’d like to believe the human imagination isn’t limited in the…
Film and Media
Aging Machiavellian Sex Gods
Scheming white male politician. The final word implies the first, and if you’re in the U.S., the power players are still mostly of the middle description (one President doth not…
Playing (Witch)Doctor with Horror: Meet Devon Mikolas
Opening scene: stalk-and-kill, slasher with a bag on his head, victim unusually male but just as doomed, his dashing through the woods well-choreographed but familiar, his death a suitable intro…
Living in Fiction, Class Warfare, and Such
This morning I wrote in an email that I have no interest in memoir. Poe called it the imp of the perverse; Foucault’s inversion was the perverse implantation. Perhaps my…
Her / It / Them (about the movie Her)
Spike Jonze’s Her has won and may continue to win some of the year’s biggest awards, which was the final push I needed to see a movie of a sort…