Male friendships have some elements to them that kind of distance them from female friendships. Often things go unspoken and affection is underplayed. Often enough this dynamic can make for very interesting films. Though male friendship and love (in a non-sexual way) isn’t depicted too often in a way that rings true and honest, when […]
Nowadays Hollywood is apparently terrified of any original ideas. Every film is seemingly based on some existing property. Whether it be based on a comic book, a reboot of an old franchise or continuing the story of an existing film. This may be a good business model but the final product often ends up being […]
“I killed him because he was talking badly about Juan Alvarez, who’s my friend and I know what he was saying was a big lie.” – Max Aub (Crímenes Ejemplares, 1999) What does a killer feel? What makes him or her commit a murder? These are questions we have asked ourselves a thousand times, but […]
For science fiction cinema the 1970s, particularly the films pre-1977––when Star Wars was released and shifted the popcorn paradigm for better or worse––was a golden age. Diverse filmmakers like Woody Allen, Robert Altman, John Boorman, John Carpenter, and Andrei Tarkovsky, as prime examples, took great risks, combined arthouse urges tempered with genre tropes, and cultural […]
There’s something about twins… Having someone in the world that looks exactly like you, and with whom you probably spend most of your childhood and, exceptional circumstances aside, your later life too, is something that has provoked filmmakers’ minds all over the world. And telling a story about twins is not only a technological and […]
The Latin word for the occult is occultus, which means something that is hidden or concealed secretly. The common English usage of the word has come to be referred to as the “knowledge of the paranormal,” versus something that can be measured [1]. So it is considered to be something that is present that cannot […]