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2019 / Craig Schroeder / movies

January 20, 2020

Craig’s Top Ten of 2019

10. CLIMAX Gaspar Noe’s Climax exists in the delicate meridian between art and madness. Taking place in a single location, Climax sees a dance troupe plummet into bedlam when it’s discovered they’ve all been drugged with a powerful hallucinogenic. Noe’s...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

October 9, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Scars of Dracula, by Craig Schroeder

Count Dracula’s status as horror’s most sinister sex symbol is a mythology built over the last 100 years. From the pages of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel to Bela Lugosi’s iconic performance, the Count’s grotesque appeal is both hypnotic and repulsive....

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June 25, 2019

New to Home Video 6/25/19

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May 30, 2019

For the Birds: I’ll Fly Away Oh Glory, by Craig Schroeder

With the explosion of reality television in the 2000s came the ubiquitous critiques maligning the broad format as a single monolithic genre with nothing of value, discounting any number of thoughtful, compassionate, well-crafted reality programs. However, one sub-genre of reality...

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April 29, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Magic Flute, by Craig Schroeder

The lines between television, film, and performance art as a whole continue to blur with each passing year. With the Academy’s recent decision to uphold its stance and allow Netflix to contend for Oscars, the paradigm in which viewers consume...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 16, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

Isolation and claustrophobia are about the hardest hitting one-two combination the horror genre can deliver. If not baked right into the premise (The Descent, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead), they’re often deployed to heighten a scene’s tension (the...

Craig Schroeder / movies / new to home video / scott nye / tyler smith

April 16, 2019

New to Home Video 4/16/19

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March 21, 2019

Ramen Shop: For the Hungry Boy, by Craig Schroeder

Just as movies are empathy machines, as Roger Ebert famously quipped, food also allows people to relate to experiences wildly different from their own. Some of cinema’s greatest moments are those that exploit the inextricable link between food and the...

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March 14, 2019

The Hummingbird Project: What About the Lemon Farmers?, by Craig Schroeder

Squint just a bit and The Hummingbird Project—the new film from Kim Nguyen—looks an awful lot like David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network. Both films share Jesse Eisngberg as a lead, playing a confident neurotic who wades into murky...

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February 28, 2019

Stray: Falling in Line, by Craig Schroeder

In just ten years, Marvel Studios has created a vast net of influence over the way sci-fi/action films look and how these stories are told. For better or worse, they have created the template for movies about super-humans. And if...

Tagged: craig schroeder

Home Video Hovel: Scars of Dracula, by Craig Schroeder

New to Home Video 6/25/19

For the Birds: I’ll Fly Away Oh Glory, by Craig Schroeder

Home Video Hovel: The Magic Flute, by Craig Schroeder

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

New to Home Video 4/16/19

Ramen Shop: For the Hungry Boy, by Craig Schroeder

The Hummingbird Project: What About the Lemon Farmers?, by Craig Schroeder

Stray: Falling in Line, by Craig Schroeder

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