HEEERE’S RODNEY: A DISCUSSION WITH RODNEY ASCHER, DIRECTOR OF ‘ROOM 237’ AND ‘THE NIGHTMARE’
By Kevin Redding At roughly 4 a.m. in the quiet dark, when most everybody else is well into their sleep, […]
PURE CINEPHILIA: A CHAT WITH CRAIG JOHNSON
By Kevin Redding If the movie really hypnotizes me, the sensation follows out into real life, and the world seems […]
MAD DAN: FURY BLOG, OR SOCIAL POLITICS & THE DESECRATION OF THE MODERN MOVIE EXPERIENCE
By Dan Poorman These days you get in a lot of trouble no matter what you say, you know what […]
IT DOES: A REACTION TO ‘IT FOLLOWS’
By Dan Poorman NOTE: This is spoiler-free. You’re welcome. I’m going to cut to the chase: everyone is talking about […]
ANIMATION NEW AND NEWER: THE 2014-2015 ROUNDUP
By Cole Rothacker Last year was an interesting year for animated films. For the first time since 2006, we didn’t see […]
DOES JUPITER ASCEND?
By Scott Interrante When I was in third or fourth grade, I started writing a novel—as third or fourth graders who are too […]
‘AMERICAN SNIPER’ AND THE PRO-WAR, ANTI-WAR FILM
By Jon Comulada In the opening moments of Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, we see an American tank and a squadron […]
FOR YOUR TV SCREEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY
It’s Christmas, folks, and you know what that means: The Taste Basket writers/holiday aficionados Kevin Redding and Dan Poorman have joined forces to create another […]
FIRST WATCH 2014: MEMORABLE FILMS, OLD AND NEW
It’s December, and you know what that means. It’s the last month of the year. Also, there are some holidays […]
SOCIOPATHS, DRESSES, AND THE MECHANICS OF ACTING: CRACKING OPEN THE MIND OF BRAD DOURIF
By Kevin Redding Since the 1970s, actor Brad Dourif has made a career out of his chameleon-versatility in film, TV, […]
THE FINAL CUT: RECOMMENDED VIEWING FOR HALLOWEEN NIGHT
Picture this: It’s Halloween night, you’re too old to go trick-or-treating and you don’t have a party to attend. Or, […]
ON MONSTER MASHUPS
By PJ Grisar The modern monster mythos was born one rainy summer night in Switzerland when a teenage girl decided […]
‘THE SHAPE’ OF MY HEART: A LOVE LETTER TO CARPENTER’S ‘HALLOWEEN’ & THE SEASON
By Kevin Redding I haven’t yet seen the new Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer. I haven’t listened to much music […]
ROSAMUND PIKE AND THE MOST REMARKABLE FILM PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR
By Jon Comulada *MORE GONE GIRL SPOILERS AHEAD!* The mark of a great performance, in my opinion, is a sense of […]
BLOOD, GUTS, AND GONZO FEMINISM: GILLIAN FLYNN AND THE ‘GONE GIRL’ HORROR NARRATIVE
By Dan Poorman Friends, Internet dwellers: There are many spoilers sprinkled throughout this essay. I have marked some in convenient BOLD […]
‘IT’ ALL STARTED WITH A VIDEOTAPE…
By Logan Metcalf Stemming from my childhood, there have been two constant phobias that have always plagued me. Unsurprisingly, they […]
