Still from Trim Season A fantastic new entry in the horror genre, Trim Season follows Emma, jobless and searching for purpose, and a group of twenty-somethings from Los Angeles as they head up the coast to make quick cash trimming marijuana on a secluded farm in Northern California. Cut off from the rest of the… Read more »
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 »
Poster for The Wicker Man (1973) Jesse Pasternack looks at the musical aspects of the unsettling horror masterwork The Wicker Man. The Wicker Man (1973) is an enduring cult classic for several reasons. It has a fantastic sense of worldbuilding, an excellent cast of iconic actors (Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt, etc.), and a finale that… Read more »
Still from Early Works Guest contributor Dorotea Sotirovska briefly contextualizes the political landscape of filmmaker (and upcoming IU Cinema guest!) Želimir Žilnik’s film Early Works. Želimir Žilnik’s first feature film, Early Works, is an innovative act of artistic provocation, combining punk ethos, humor, and the youthful spirit of ‘68 with damning social critique and experimental… Read more »
William Powell and Kay Francis in a publicity photo for Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle, 1932) Jack Miller extols the virtues of Jewel Robbery, a slightly weird and completely wonderful pre-Code romantic comedy starring the wildly charming team of Kay Francis and William Powell. The luminous pre-Code star Kay Francis appeared in seven movies in the… Read more »
A surgeon prepares for a grizzly operation in Brian De Palma’s Sisters Explaining why Sisters is the first true Brian De Palma film and how it set the table for things to come in his career, Chris Forrester delves into the 1972 film’s racial politics, visual language, and, yes, the Alfred Hitchcock of it all…. Read more »