Clark: A Christmas Story (1983)
It’s amazing that Bob Clark followed Black Christmas, arguably the greatest American Christmas horror film, with A Christmas Story, arguably the greatest American Christmas [...]
Clark: Black Christmas (1974)
Bob Clark may be the greatest American Christmas director. Not only did he helm one of the best feel-good holiday season movies in A Christmas Story but he directed Black [...]
Levinson: The Bay (2012)
The Bay may be the most unusual work in Barry Levinson’s filmography as well as one of the oddest instances of found footage. It started out as a documentary about [...]
Melendez: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
A Charlie Brown Christmas is the perfect film for anyone who has ever felt alone, melancholy or ambivalent around Christmas. We usually think of these as sentiments that are [...]
Marich: Horror in the High Desert (2021)
There’s an endearing auteur-amateur nexus to found footage horror. Aspiring film directors often can’t realise their visions due to budgetary constraints or a lack of [...]
Nourished by Time, Erotic Probiotic 2 (2023)
Nourished by Time is Marcus Brown, an electronic artist who does the writing, instrumentation, performance and final mixing of all their tracks. They’re also a master genre [...]
Van Morrison, Three Chords & the Truth (2019)
As the title announces, Three Chords & the Truth is a back-to-basics album for Van Morrison. The phrase was coined by Harlan Howard to describe country music and while [...]
Leone: Terrifier 3 (2024)
Terrifier and Terrifier 2 were two of the most original horror films of the last five years, albeit for quite different reasons. On the one hand, Terrifier managed to restore [...]
Don DeLillo, Americana (1971)
Don DeLillo’s first novel was quite extraordinary. That’s partly because it reads like four or five novels in one (it runs close to five hundred pages). All of them [...]
The X-Files, Season 2, Episode 21: “The Calusari” (April 14, 1995)
“The Calusari” sees The X-Files return to a more conventional register after the singularity of “Humbug.” It draws equally on It and The Omen and revolves around a [...]