Karen Martínez in Cadejo Blanco Noni Ford discusses the role of missing girls and women in recent films like Cadejo Blanco, their connection to true crime, and more. Sarita doesn’t seem like a person of grit. In the first few scenes of Justin Lerner’s Cadejo Blanco, we see her get cajoled into going to the… Read more »
Noni Ford writes about how Ray Bradbury finds empathy for the unknown, as exemplified by the 1950s sci-fi flick It Came from Outer Space, whose script is based on the author’s original film treatment “The Meteor.” My first introduction to the work of Ray Bradbury was the book Martian Chronicles, which was one of the… Read more »
I watched Frances Ha at the wrong time in my life; I was too young to quite get the character. I didn’t understand her, why she wasn’t aware of the incredibly embarrassing things she was saying, why she went to Paris, and why she couldn’t accept the strain in her relationship with her friend Sophie…. Read more »
It’s hard to pinpoint when a film becomes a family classic. For my family, like many others, what seems to connect all of our disparate tastes is humor. Some of my earliest memories are of us watching movies together and laughing uproariously at a joke we’re seeing for the first or even the fifth time…. Read more »
Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II starts out like any classic horror film, with some lore, a cast of well-meaning characters, and of course a cabin in the middle of the woods. Discovered and studied by a family of archaeologists, the Necronomicon, otherwise known as the Book of the Dead, unleashes an ancient evil when read… Read more »
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed starts with the death of photographer Nan Goldin’s beloved older sister, Barbara, whose suicide sent shockwaves through Goldin’s family, life, and art. While it might not always be clear how these things tie back to this event, Goldin tells us through voiceover how they all relate. Part autobiography and… Read more »