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…
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…
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…
The Exorcist: the iconic, disturbing classic
As with yesterday, I convinced my dad to watch a Halloween movie with me. But this time, my mom joined us without meaning to! She happened to be having dinner…
The Omen: the son of the devil, or the son of bad parents?
“You will see me in hell, Mr. Thorn! There we will share out our sentence.” There aren’t a lot of Halloween-type movies I can convince my dad to watch with…
Heathers: a TNT-fueled black comedy
“Our love is God. Let’s go get a Slushie.” Remember my coworker from day 3? When the new Mean Girls came out, I asked her if she’d seen the original. …
Soylent Green: the cannibalistic dystopia of two years ago
Yeah, maybe a sci-fi thriller from the 70s isn’t entirely on theme for a Halloween watchlist, but the eventual twist is horrifying enough to justify it. After all, the dystopia…
The Others: an emotionally compelling haunting
The Others is one of those movies, like The Sixth Sense, where you more than likely know the plot twist before having watched it. That wasn’t the case when I…
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: a nostalgic animated delight
For day #5, I chose a movie my Mom called her favorite Halloween watch: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! The music and animation alone are wonderfully nostalgic and seasonal!…
