Category: Looking Back

Here’s your motivation: You’re lost! You’re angry, wandering through a hellscape of slasher flicks and torture porn and random demons that […]

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in […]

I have a VHS problem. They are my Chapstick; bought frequently, replaced before sufficient use, and lost from my pockets as […]

Timothy Treadwell was eaten by a bear. That’s usually what people remember about Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary Grizzly Man. The film […]

Contains spoilers for The Sixth Sense (1999), Psycho (1960), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Others (2001), Identity (2003), Basic […]

Twenty years ago, Katarina Stratford — played by the inimitable Julia Stiles — blasted Joan Jett’s “My Reputation” from the speakers […]

The first image in Ron Howard’s 1994 film The Paper is of gears turning inside an alarm clock. It’s a disorienting […]

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in […]

“You only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow – this opportunity comes once in a lifetime.” — […]

Last year, on Halloween, I read the first reports about a Mandarin duck inexplicably appearing in Central Park. Flaming orange frills […]

Like most self-absorbed teenage boys, my perspective on love in 2012 was complicated, to say the least. I was unattractive even […]