Small Comfort
Sachin Hingoo, like many of you, is Going Through It, and provides a couple of movie recommendations to, in some small way, soothe what ails you.
Pay No Attention to the Puppet Behind the Mask
Puppets + Halloween should equal something right up my alley, but oddly in scary movies it frequently does not. I do love Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, which achieves the exact combination of creepy, cute, and quirky that I’m looking for, but it’s not puppets. Some of […]
What Ghost Would Dare Hate Us?
A dilapidated mansion. An eerie, mist-shrouded forest. A lone samurai making his way home late at night meets a seemingly defenseless beautiful and refined young woman. So begins Kuroneko–Kaneto Shindo’s tale of cats, vengeance, and the wrongs visited upon women (and powerless men) by entitled men. Kuroneko is […]
TIFF 2024: Blood, Bombs, and Bisexual Lighting in Timo Tjahjanto’s ‘The Shadow Strays’
Timo Tjahento’s ‘The Shadow Strays’ continues the director’s flawless record of producing maximalist action-horror that pulls no punches (or kicks)
William Shatner: Horror Icon
One day, William Shatner will die, and every obituary will be for Captain Kirk. A paragraph or so down, they will mention his Emmys for Boston Legal, his numerous comebacks, T.J. Hooker and Rescue 911, and then go on to celebrate his diverse creative portfolio, his sprechgesang, his […]
Model Misbehavior: Boom (2003)
I’m not even sorry about that title. Boom (2003, directed and written by Kaizad Gustad) really is about a group of models behaving badly. But it’s also an artifact of one of the classic paths to stardom in Bollywood: the model-turned-actor. The models in the film have to […]
The Cultural Gutter 