Edition 23 — Week of October 17, 2026 (Archived)
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.
1958
Who will his bride be tonight?
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.
An unspeakable horror. A creative genius. Captured for eternity.
1984
A place for dreams. A place for heartbreak. A place to pick up the pieces.
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
It gets messy. It gets pretentious. And it's not especially scary (the violence is almost cartoon-like). But it is funny and marvellously camp – in both senses of the word. Stop!
— Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Daily Mail (UK)
The result is sexy and cathartic in ways that would give Ray Blanchard a heart attack. I would love to gush about the many campy, erotic, and thrilling delights of Schoenbrun’s latest (I’ve barely even talked about how damn good Gillian Anderson is in it), but to say too much more would rob you of the chance to witness this disarmingly uplifting slasher-sex romp for yourself.
— Nic Anstett, Autostraddle
After years of slapdash sequels, the Camp Miasma franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
2019
Let the festivities begin.
130 million people take road trips every year. 15,400 of them are never seen again.
2019
"It’s a statement about my stupidity, your stupidity, everybody’s stupidity…There is a decadence in America. I see it all around me.”I wrote about why Nashville is the best American film:"
"In an age of online radicalization, where people you know and love can be suddenly transformed inside despite outward appearances remain the same, Siegel's portrait of invasion still chills."
""I've told you men not to cause trouble among the people, but dogs can't help eating shit!"
"Absurdist cultural objects trying to grapple with or reflect absurd cultural objects. Are we too far gone?"
"We become Garbage People in Garbage Land. This excremental existence, living in each other's sewage — it manifests the obscenity of the Other's overproximity."
"No, I was just watching a gutbustingly funny Looney Tunes movie, a beautiful fusion of their anarchic brand of humour and the tropes of the legal thriller, as plaintiff Wile E."
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