Category: Craig Schroeder
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Car Wash originally ran as a home video review. 1976’s Car Wash is a cinematic outlier, noteworthy for spawning a ubiquitous disco hit and hosting early film appearances...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Little Annie Rooney originally ran as a home video review. Little Annie Rooney stars Mary Pickford as the titular scamp and leader of a gang of young...
Endings, Beginnings is a mopey, tone-deaf slog that misunderstands its audience and its purpose. It’s like an entire set of Morrissey covers played on kazoo in the middle of a sports bar on Super Bowl Sunday. With a cast of...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
