Tag: Anya Taylor-Joy

Coming of Age with Dead Kids: The Cathartic Dread of A24 Horror

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On the left, a middle-aged blonde woman stares in horror, her mouth agape. On the right, a blonde teen girl stares transfixed into the camera.

|Abraham Teuber| Have horror movies always been so romantic? As predictable as the changing leaves, the dating app normies whip out the ol’ “Let’s cuddle and watch a horror movie” line every October. The hulking recliners in chain multiplexes have enabled the canoodling. Raisable armrests and blankets… Continue reading

American History 101 with Robert Eggers

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A shirtless white man with long brown hair stands in the center of a farm pen holding an axe above a piece of wood.

|Ben Tuthill| For a country obsessed with our colonial heritage, we’re astonishingly bad at making movies about it. Once upon a time, we put out a French and Indian War movie every other year. The practice fell out around the time of the Bicentennial, and since then … Continue reading