|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
|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
|Malcolm Cooke| Claire Denis moved to Cameroon, the setting of Chocolat, when she was only two months old.1 With a colonial administrator father, she had an itinerant childhood driven by her father’s passion for geography,2 growing up across Burkina Faso, Somalia, and Senegal in… Continue reading
|Azra Thakur| Claire Denis sets the tone of her second feature film, No Fear, No Die (1990) from the start: in the middle of night a young Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas are at the forefront of establishing their lives in Paris. De Bankolé is reflecting on a passage from a book, whispering… Continue reading
|Lucas Hardwick| Beware: Spoilers Ahead. Believe it or not, instead of earning money by writing for a living, I actually have a real, honest-to-God day job of the blue-collar persuasion where I recently found myself engaged in the spirited pastime of bitching about work with a colleague… Continue reading
|MH Rowe| One triumph of Peter Weir’s Witness (1985) is its sense of dreamy metaphor. The score, the cinematography, the simmer of desire between its lead characters, John Book (Harrison Ford) and Rachel Lapp (Kelly McGillis), and the situation of a hard-bitten Philadelphia Continue reading
|Cole Seidl| It is not particularly difficult to find films of resistance, or films in which colonized subjects fight back, asserting their rights and their refusal to go along peaceably with the agenda of their colonizers. Seek out the cinema of any colonized people and there will be many… Continue reading
