Every month, Establishing Shot brings you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series reflects the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema and demonstrates the eclectic tastes of the bloggers. Each contributor has picked one film that they… Read more »
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand. A decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy moves into a luxury condo in the neighborhood, now… Read more »
A harrowing zombie horror-thriller, Train to Busan follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral zombie outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet train ride to Busan, a city that has managed to hold off the zombie hordes… or so everyone hopes. A landmark South Korean film, Train to… Read more »
Inside Vulture Video In honor of Video Store Day on October 19, Anna Rose Stamm rhapsodizes about physical media and the irreplaceability of video stores like Bloomington’s own Vulture Video. The very first Christmas gift I can remember receiving was a VHS tape of A Bug’s Life. I still remember the way those tapes sound… Read more »
Still from L’Inferno Underground Film Series curator Richard Jermain notes why music is vital to the cinematic experience, particularly with silent films, as exemplified by 1911’s hallucinatory L’Inferno. On October 19, Montopolis is returning to IU Cinema to do a live score of the first ever feature-length horror film L’Inferno. Based on Dante’s Divine Comedy,… Read more »
A stranger comes knocking in Oddity (Mc Carthy, 2024) Chris Forrester considers how 2024’s eerie and unexpected Oddity fits within the landscape of recent horror films. Nearly every year in recent memory has yielded one or two horror movies subjected to a repetitive, now-familiar cycle of discourse: fanatic pre-release hype, a marketing campaign that plays… Read more »