“Ghosts are real, this much I know,” admonishes our narrator, the American heiress and wannabe author Edith Cushing, played with punch by Mia Wasikowska (Stoker, Maps to the Stars). Edith is the imperiled ingenue in Guadalajara, Mexico fabulist Guillermo del Toro’s (The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth) latest creepfest, the old line Gothic horror film Crimson […]
Month: October 2015
Movie Review: Brooklyn (2015)
Every now and again, a film comes along that is so delicately crafted that it reminds you that cinema is an art form, rather than simply a vehicle for aging celebrities to nab a paycheck. John Crowley’s (Intermission, Closed Circuit) love letter to his homeland is one of those rare and treasured films. Brooklyn feels […]
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The 10 Best Sion Sono Movies
Sion Sono, who has directed 46 films since 1984, is one of the most prolific filmmakers of Japan, excelling in everything grotesque, abnormally erotic and exceedingly violent that can be found in a movie. He is considered one of the artists who finally modernized the preterit genre of J-Horror, transforming it into something closer to […]
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10 Great Animated Movies That Introduced Anime To The West
Anime has a major place today among popular films and TV series, but much of its popularity in the West has mostly grown in the last few decades. Commercial animation in Japan began in the early 20th century, and began to take on a characteristic anime style by the 1960s with series like Osamu Tezuka’s […]
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The 20 Greatest Horror Movie Directors in Cinema History
The first horror film is said to have come out in the late 1890’s. Directed by Georges Méliès, it was titled Le Manoir du Diable and was only two minutes long. From there, a whole culture was born. The horror genre is so notable because of how much creativity and fun go into it. It […]