Awards season has finally arrived, albeit a little later than usual. Thanks to a worldwide pandemic unrivaled by anything in modern history, cinema had to take a bit of a break while the world slowly restored itself. Although the world isn’t exactly functioning like it used to, we are slowly making our way to normalcy, […]
At first glance, many define Don Siegel’s career only by the action films he has made. Many saying he is an action pioneer making Hollywood films about tough guys. He has most likely been given this stamp due to his most widely seen film, Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood. While he has made his fair […]
The Academy Awards are a source of both irritation and recognition for film fans. In many ways, the process of celebrating the best films of each year may give cinephiles the chance to see some of their favorite artists receive further honors for their exemplary work. However, it’s also quite annoying to see that the […]
The film historian Sheri Chinen Biesen writes in her book “Blackout” that there are two separate strains of film noir—one arose during wartime, the other followed it: “These early noir films created a psychological atmosphere that in many ways marked a response to an increasingly realistic and understandable anxiety – about war, shortages, changing gender […]
Cosmic horror is one of the most complex types of horror to examine. It is also one of the bleakest subgenres of horror. Based on the literary philosophy, Cosmicism, developed by the writer H. P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror focuses on the power of the sublime in order to make people feel inconsequential and small. There […]
Quinqui, pronounced “kinky,” coming from the word “delinquent,” is a Spanish film genre that explores working class life during the Transition period. For those who may not know, the Transition is from 1975, the fall of the fascist dictatorship to democracy in the late 1980’s. While politicians grappled for a dignified, moderate identity in the […]