Friendship Finding Its Way Home: Jeong Jae-eun on Take Care of My Cat (2001)
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. At the heart of changing relationships may be changing environments. I wanted to portray the
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. At the heart of changing relationships may be changing environments. I wanted to portray the
By Jonathan Monovich. Some people only want to see what they expect to see, but I’m not that kind of
By Thomas M. Puhr. Like their traditional method of travel, Nick and Liam’s temporal destination underlines Jenkin’s disinterest in sci-fi spectacle." Time travel stories naturally conflate space and time. In such
By Ellie Dean. Unusually for a film (ostensibly) produced for the American audience—it is the Filipino perspective that is most often preferenced. The emotional authenticity of Ortaliz’s performance as Dalisay
A Book Review by Roberto Curti. A treasure trove of material, presented in an intriguing manner...." The title for the late Tony Williams’ final work (forthcoming from BearManor Media) is
By Thomas M. Puhr. At a time when genre film has reached new heights of creativity and daring, audiences deserve so much more from one of the greatest directors...." The
A Book Review by William Blick. In addition to offering a production history, Stewart revisits an underseen and underappreciated contribution to the horror genre, in the military horror tradition." Niche-genre
By Thomas M. Puhr. Watching a character look around in bewildered awe as they first encounter the backrooms gets old pretty quick. How many times must we see someone gasp
A Book Review by John Talbird. Instead of throwing a heaping helping of film titles at us, substituting lists and anecdote for real analysis, each chapter takes a deep dive
By Mina Radovic. A visionary gangland highlighting a connection to Black America and ancient Egypt." Writer-director Yelena Popovic’s new film Moses the Black is a visionary gangland epic that turns
By George Toles. “and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” —Feste in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Act 5, Scene 1 In the final scene of Michael Curtiz’s 1950 film, Bright Leaf, the ruthless, defeated protagonist, Brant Royle (Gary Cooper) leaves his home town on […]
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. At the heart of changing relationships may be changing environments. I wanted to portray the moment when people’s desires begin to diverge. I hoped audiences would not overlook the real struggles faced by young people on the threshold of independence.”–Jeong Jae-eun There are films that […]
By Jonathan Monovich. Some people only want to see what they expect to see, but I’m not that kind of person. Josef Von Sternberg was once told his movie didn’t seem very realistic, and he responded, ‘Of course not, it’s much better than reality.’” –Julian Schnabel In the truest sense […]
ANNOUNCEMENT: Channel Academic Publishing Launches as a Scholarly Imprint of BearManor Media; Editorial Director, Matthew Sorrento I’m very excited to share that we have launched Channel Academic Publishing, a scholarly imprint of BearManor Media. With Ben Ohmart as publisher, Gary D. Rhodes as Advisory Editor, and yours truly as Editorial […]
By Ali Moosavi. From erotic poetry to deadpan animation…. Several movies screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival have not been well covered, with more attention on the main competition. Here are ten shown in some of the other sections of the festival. Special Screenings There have been many movies, […]
By James Morrison. Every admirer of Welles – that is, every lover of cinema – will find endless fascination in perusing the point of origin of one of his greatest films.” Touch of Evil (1958) starts with the most famous shot in Orson Welles’s work and one of the most […]
By Andrew Kolarik. Something that has grown organically over the last few years from quiet beginnings rooted in internet memes and computer gaming…and is startlingly effective at evoking a kind of nameless dread…. The weird netherworld of Backrooms might be what Purgatory is like. Endless repetition of places and memories […]
By Thomas M. Puhr. Like their traditional method of travel, Nick and Liam’s temporal destination underlines Jenkin’s disinterest in sci-fi spectacle.” Time travel stories naturally conflate space and time. In such narratives, the non-present is like a location—the word “travel” itself suggests physical movement to a place either behind (the past) […]
By Yun-hua Chen. I think it comes down to absurdity. I’m not sure it’s exactly a genre, but ‘absurd’ feels closest.” Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke The combination of the seemingly contradictory concepts in the title, useful and ghost, is the film’s most ingenious device. What happens when a ghost obsesses a vacume […]
By Robert Guffey. For no matter who eats who first, the grave swallows both father and son in time….” What follows is a brief excerpt from my latest book, Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos (Headpress, 2025). This analysis of William Richert’s Winter Kills […]