In a world where people are constantly being bombarded by images of perfect bodies and voracious, sexual tendencies, Twilight offers a remedy to this by reinventing the modern romantic relationship through the fetishization of sexual abstinence. The combination of...
You can trace the origin of the rape revenge sub-genre from the late 1960's, when horror films began to depart from the usual gore and violence, and began to drift into the area of 'snuff.' Ever since then, the film industry has not shied away from showing the piths...
There'll Always be an England Sex Pistols: Live From Brixton Academy a film by Julien Temple Fremantle Media Enterprises “We had a manager once too, and he was a cunt.” It's one of those bands that you absolutely must understand in order to form some reasonable...
Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film is a gritty tale of jealousy, greed and revenge, set at the turn of the twentieth century when the American oil industry was just beginning. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, a self-made man who starts his own drilling...
In a nutshell, Richard Eyre's new film is a disturbing glimpse into the lives of two devastatingly lonely women. Judi Dench plays an embittered school teacher, an authoritarian whose depressingly vacant social life drives her to manipulate the deadly secret of the new...
By watching the young, confused, and tired character from Richard Linklater’s Waking Life, I realized how fortunate I was to be able to rouse myself from my dreams. Perhaps too fortunate? I’m not sure. It would be rather intriguing to be able to exercise the concept...