Not so Super 8

I don’t spend a lot of time these days wondering why my personal taste in movies is so often completely out of sync with popular and critical opinion, but every now and then something comes up that makes me pause for a moment. On Friday, I went to see J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, even though […]

Blasts from the past

Román Viñoly Barreto’s El vampiro negro (1953)

Criterion Blu-ray review: Jan Troell’s The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972)

Fantasy, horror and crazed killers on the exploitation fringes

Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

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