What Do We Do Now? Where Do We Go?
If you’re at all a reasonable person, you’re likely gripped by fear by the results…
Taco Break: Out (and In) with the Old
At one point, Netflix was the premiere source for streaming video. Back in 2012, before…
Missing the CARNIVAL
It’s one of the higher-class films that we’ve ever done. I think people have to…
Adrift in Time
I’m going to level with you—one of the things that’s annoyed me most about Quentin…
Taco Break: Nostalgia for Nostalgia about Anti-Nostalgia
In 1950’s science fiction and horror movies, Hollywood used a formula called The Old Dark House as…
Seducing the Senses
We were talking the other day about scenes of pleasure in film. There were exceptions,…
Taco Break: What do you want out of a horror movie?
The horror genre is near impossible to define in a single sentence. Wikipedia, for instance,…
Ordinary Heroes
We binged all of Luke Cage as quickly as we could, cramming in episodes while…
Taco Break: First Dates
I had a first date on Friday. It wasn’t really a date. It started out…
Boiling the Fudge: Sexual Repression in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
It would be easy to write about many factors of The Night of the Hunter…