Category: film
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10 Beloved 80s Films That Suck
Film culture from the 1980s is now known for perfecting the blockbuster, creating the teen movie, and churning out tons of (somewhat inappropriate) films for kids. And a lot of movies from this decade have gone on to become true classics: Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ghostbusters, and many more. But not […]
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10 Best Movies That Criticize Consumerism
Consumerism is the natural by-product of capitalism. Really, it’s the natural by-product of being alive: we all need things to survive, after all. Food, housing, clothing, from beginning to end it seems it’s our natural state to consume. But living in a capitalist society also complicates the matter, particularly since in a such a society, […]
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Perfect Directors: Robert Altman
I am an American. That is to say, I was born in, and have spent my entire life, in the United States of America. Everything I know about the world–if not reality itself–is filtered through my experiences and understanding from the sliver of time I’ve been alive from the late 20th to early 21st century […]
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Perfect Directors: Jacques Tati
Directors don’t need to have a long list of movies on their resume to be considered great; in fact, it seems the more movies once heralded filmmakers make, the more likely they are to sully their own good fortune and reputation, living long enough to become the villain–or at least retroactively wreck their own reputation. […]
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Cult Classics: Better Off Dead
Lane Meyer wishes he were dead. He tries over and over–self-immolation, carbon monoxide poisoning, jumping from a bridge, even hanging. But like most things in his life, it never quite goes his way. Did I mention this is a major plot point in an 80’s teen comedy? Better Off Dead isn’t just another teen movie […]
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Cult Classics: Fateful Findings
Why do we like terrible movies? Not just bad movies or mediocre movies–those are depressingly common and a ton are released each year from big and independent studios alike. Those are then shuffled off into the catacombs of daytime airings on Showtime and the dregs of streaming services, never reaching over two stars in their […]
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10 Black and White Movies That Still Look Modern Today
Black and white films hold an important place in film history: before three-strip Technicolor was introduced in 1932, all films were shot in black-and-white. Even after the advent of color film, many filmmakers chose to shoot in monochrome as both an aesthetic choice and because the film stock was cheaper, which afforded filmmakers to experiment […]
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10 Totally 80’s Horror Flicks For Halloween
If the 1980s in America was a decade about anything, it was one of excess: a supercharged economy afforded artistic enterprises to be produced that normally would have been ignored, if not outright abandoned, were it not for the gigantic amount of capital flowing and available at the time in the arts. As such, many […]
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Horror Movie Recaps
Wherein an over-educated pop culture nerd deals with a crumbling relationship by watching horror movies and recapping them live, with some entertaining results.
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Worst to Best Gus Van Sant Films
A sort of American Andrei Tarkovsky, Gus Van Sant’s films are characterized by long tracking shots, stretches of unbroken silence, and drifting dream-like cinematography that makes seemingly everyday events something unique and special. Often depicting characters that live on the edge of society–either due to their sexual orientation, a purposeful defiance of norms, or from […]
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10 Wonderfully Complex Sci-Fi Movies
Perhaps in its very nature, the sci-fi genre is relatively complex: short stories, novels, TV series and films that make up speculative fiction kind of relies on detailed expository passages to build far-flung futures, reality-bending premises, and wild tales set in a galaxy far, far away. Whether the story is set on an alien world […]
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