The Cabin in the Woods: a brilliant subversion of tropes
“I thought there’d be stars. We are abandoned.” Another year, another 31 Days of Frights! This time around, I started off the gauntlet with a modern horror classic: The Cabin…
The Time Traveler’s Wife: a fate-driven romance in reverse
The Time Traveler’s Wife - BOOK (2003) Dead people need us to remember them. Even if it eats us. Even if all we can do is say ‘I’m sorry’ until…
Ballerina: a cliched return to the world of John Wick
While the miniseries The Continental showed us the backstory of Winston Scott, Ballerina is the more novel spin-off of the John Wick franchise, focusing on an entirely new character in…
Call Me By Your Name: the cloudy realm of first love
Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer. My first interaction with Call Me By Your Name was when I saw the…
The Beguiled: seduction and betrayal in the gothic South
1966 introduced the world to Thomas P. Cullinan’s The Beguiled. The gothic thriller was made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood just five years later, followed by a second adaptation…
Disobedience: a clash of Jewish culture and queer identity
There's nothing quite like watching a sapphic movie, enjoying it, checking out the source material, and realizing said sapphic-ness was not quite as heavy (or even present in the first…
Mickey 17 & The Monkey: one actor, two characters
After my best friend and I made a double feature out of Mickey 17 and The Monkey, I commented about the unintentional parallel between the movies: they both featured a…
Sense and Sensibility: three adaptations of Jane Austen’s first novel
When I first read Sense and Sensibility for a high school English class, I declared it “harder to understand than Shakespeare.” This was a grandiose statement bolstered by my adoration…
Mufasa: entertaining nostalgia bait with touches of heart
I stand by the fact that if OUAT had done a Lion King episode, Mufasa would be Scar’s tragic backstory. (Or, as I was so fond of calling those villain-origin…
12 Angry Men endures, from the 50’s to the 90’s
I recently watched 1957’s 12 Angry Men with a friend who recommended it. She said, “You don’t expect a movie about twelve guys arguing in a room to be so…
