horror films

Film Preview: The Brattle Theatre’s Dead of Winter — Time for Tales of the Beast

These films will no doubt raise your spirits in the dead of winter.

A handpicked list of cinematic horror gems for you to watch over the next 26 days.

I love subtlety, and beauty, and trash, and terror, in equal measure.

I was looking forward to XX because it was horror, it was an anthology, and because all four pieces were directed by women.

Two recent horror films know what they are doing: they are intelligent, clever, original, and genuinely disturbing.

Ron October 22, 2019 at 4:43 pm on Theater Review: Another View of “Indecent” — Flat and ObviousI have just come across this dialogue and find myself very interested in Mr. Peary's dismissinveness toward Sholem Asch's work,...
Matt Hanson October 22, 2019 at 4:27 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”Yeah, I think that Bloom was sort of misread (appropriately enough!) that he was some kind of conservative because of...
Allen Michie October 22, 2019 at 10:05 am on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”This is a fine overview of Bloom's most influential work. It's good to see an appreciation of Bloom in the...
Harvey Blume October 21, 2019 at 8:14 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”Fair enough. A friend pointed me to piece with links to two videos in which a sadly palsied Bloom shares...
Matt Hanson October 21, 2019 at 5:29 pm on Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”Well, I was certainly aware of those aspects of Bloom's life and work, among plenty of others that I didn't...