This review contains mild spoilers. Is it possible to ever fully know a person? Sure, we can attempt to form relationships, approximate a kind of understanding and familiarity. Maybe even really love somebody unconditionally. But short of tearing into flesh and muscle, pulling away the literal surface of a person
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Monthly Archives August 2018
Uniform’s The Long Walk: On Confronting the Horrors of the Modern World
The Long Walk is a record that deals directly with the horrors of organized religion and the modern world by using horror as its primary frame of reference. Songs draw inspiration from Clive Barker stories -- "Inhuman Condition" -- and horror films -- "Alone in the Dark," “Headless Eyes” -- as a way of coping with the existential terror churches wreak on their followers.
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Director Steve Mitchell on Bringing KING COHEN to the Screen
Listing all of the films made by director Larry Cohen would be pages long, and if you added in the number of TV show episodes, it’d be pages and pages past that. Even if you were to distill it down to the number of Blu-ray reissues over the last few
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The Pasolini Project: A Journey Into Pasolini, PART 4: THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS
This is The Pasolini Project, a monthly discussion series from Adrianna Gober and Doug Tilley delving into a vast body of work that, until relatively recently, had not been widely available on home video: the films of director, poet, journalist, and philosopher, Pier Paolo Pasolini. We’ll be exploring Pasolini’s filmography
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You Always Were an Asshole: The ALIENS Character Study You Never Asked For
Revelations, epiphanies, and other assorted results of rummaging in the braincase do not, like most things in life, work the way we have come to expect. We absorb so much from all the storytelling we entertain ourselves with that we can’t help but take it entirely too literally most of
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