THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME (2020) Film Review
Campos blends Southern Gothic vibes, a manic religious web of evil, and a decades-long saga of violence into a potent cocktail of rural blood, sweat and tears; Call it the Appalachian heart of darkness.
THE RISE OF JORDAN PETERSON (2020) Documentary Review
Intimate and soul-wrenching, this documentary peers into the personal and professional life of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.
ON THE MORALITY OF ART: Philosophical Essay
A philosophical essay on the relation between morality and art; Especially relevant in the modern era, as identity politics threaten to impose radically-liberal regimes onto the realm of art.
ON ART VS ENTERTAINMENT: Philosophical Essay
A philosophical essay on the incoherence of art and entertainment.
FX's FARGO (2020) TV Review
FARGO combines the surreal American small-town mystery/mystique of Lynch’s TWIN PEAKS, the classical gangsterism of Chase’s THE SOPRANOS, and the lush period design of Winter’s BOARDWALK EMPIRE. Yet it further incorporates the trademark Hawley/Coen vibe - an almost Kafka-esque sense that everything only ever seems to get worse.
PSYCHO (1960) Film Analysis
An excerpt from my philosophical thesis paper - The Uncanny: A Distinctive Modality of Cinematic Horror - which describes the Freudian psychoanalytic concept of "uncanniness" in terms of horror aesthetic.
THE RENTAL (2020) Film Review
Franco’s The Rental impresses as both a directorial debut and a chilling new indie horror.
TENET (2020) Film Review
Tenet, Tenet, Tenet. There is so much to say about Nolan’s hotly-anticipated time-spy action thriller.
RELIC (2020) Film Review
In Relic, a deceptively simple family narrative festers into a harrowing and thoughtful metaphor for dementia and natural death.
SPUTNIK (2020) Film Review
A sci-fi creature horror that reveals itself to be more of a quiet thriller, punctuated with bloody moments of monster carnage.
