|Jay Ditzer| In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, indie filmmaker Kris (Hannah Einbinder) has been hired to reboot Camp Miasma, an in-universe cult slasher franchise. Early in the film, she stops at a remote gas station, buys a DVD of Camp Miasma Part VI: A New Beginning, and fills a shopping cart with a mountain, or at least a hill, of candy. She later … Continue reading
| Matthew Tchepikova-Treon | Beyond the hardbody brass hits, kettle drums, soaring guitars, and motoric basslines (that nowadays punctuate every last over-edited theatrical trailer to death), action movie music comes in many forms. In the 1970s, performers like J.J. Johnson (Across 110th Street), Johnny Pate… Continue reading
|Hannah Baxter| It’s November 1992, and a new movie with Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves has just come out. As someone born at the tail end of Gen X, that’s all you need to know. You’ve never heard of Francis Ford Coppola or the male lead, someone unmemorably named Gary Oldman. You have, however, watched Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, … Continue reading
