Two thousand and three was a weird year for Korean cinema. Hard on the heels of the paradigm shift...
BY RUFUS DE RHAM | October 30, 2024
A woman’s experience of empty-nest syndrome manifests as a supernatural return of the repressed in Robert Zemeckis’s...
BY STEVEN MEARS | December 22, 2024
The horrible miracle of John Carpenter’s The Thing is that it manages to absolutely terrify the viewer while also being patently, grotesquely absurd.
BY MICHAEL KORESKY | October 31, 2021
Of all the myriad films titled Thirst, Rod Hardy’s 1979 feature stands out as a multi-genre wonder, a horror/sci-fi hybrid with a dash of action and...
BY MARGARET BARTON-FUMO | June 19, 2024
Behold the power of Myrna Loy! In Thirteen Women, she propels a man to throw himself in front of a moving subway train using only her intense gaze.
BY ANN OLSSON | November 30, 2023
Trouble Every Day (2001) opens with Tindersticks’ swooning, doomy song of the same name enveloping the image of two...
BY JOSÉ TEODORO | October 20, 2024
The guilty mind passes the time by inventing new escapes and tortures. Song Il-gon’s Spider Forest (2004) is the story of a...
BY TOM PHELAN | October 22, 2024
