Nicole Veneto
All the Colors of the Dark and The Case of the Bloody Iris are underrated giallo gems worth seeking out, representing not only the best of the genre, but sex symbol Edwige Fenech’s onscreen magnetism at its strongest.
Rather than a triumphant return to form from one of horror’s greatest visionaries, Dark Glasses plays like a faded Xerox copy of director Dario Argento’s past hits.
If you find David Cronenberg’s cinematic philosophy on bodily abjection/assimilation and the artistic process intellectually stimulating, then you’re in for an intoxicating return to form from the man whose name is synonymous with the body horror genre.
This Afrofuturist cyberpunk musical is a sprawling political manifesto poetically transcribed into a visual symphony of music and images.
David Lynch’s Inland Empire is a provocative challenge to filmmaking as a medium of visual storytelling that’s largely gone unmatched in the sixteen years since its initial release.
I’m happy to report that the local scene has lost none of its eccentricity thanks to a deluge of talented filmmakers and animators with a taste for the offbeat. Stay weird Boston!
X takes the right lessons from Chainsaw: it is both an adoring homage and a much needed rejuvenation of the slasher genre.
Recommending The Spine of the Night depends on how much you’d like to see things like head decapitations, eye-gouging, and people being disemboweled in your high-fantasy animated features, in which case Spine is everything you could hope for and a whole lot more.
Never mind the faint of heart, Mimi Cave’s first feature isn’t for people with weak stomachs.
Book Review: “The Poetics of Cruising” — Imaginative Acts of Capture
By exploring the historical and artistic significance of cruising throughout poetry, photography, and visual culture, the book produces a rich and exciting topography of queer culture that posits a reflexive relationship of vicarious cruising between “cruising texts” and their consumers.
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