Applaudience

For the Love of Film

Sometimes Hayden, a fellow Hong Kong exchange student, and I spend hours meandering around the city searching for picture…

What if the woman of your life already had one?

Sometimes the border between happiness and misery is…

Why Black Villains Matter

There’s the world before the cinematic realization of T’Challa aka Black Panther, and then there’s the world…

Formalism/Narrative Analysis: AI (Joseph Campbell)

Dead of Night (1945)

One sub-category of scary movies is the horror anthology. Representative films include Black Sabbath (1963), Creepshow…

At the movies: REAR WINDOW and PSYCHO

My wife says we’ve seen Rear Window five or six times in the theater, but I only recall having caught it once, the first time I ever saw it. It was long before I met her, when a restoration print came to the now-defunct Movies on Exchange in Portland, Maine, in…

tiff 16 — what to see… (update 4!)

Hey y’all. Once again, I will be combing through TIFF’s massive lineup to try and find some good…

Happy Gilmore Predicted Trump’s Election

1. Brash Outsider