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Spooky Shenanigans for Halloween
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Iโm such a sucker for holidays. I love to completely immerse myself in a theme: holiday decorations, holiday meals, holiday baking. As soon as the leaves start to turn…
David Fincherโs The Killer is a Winking Investigation into the Limits of Control
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In his foreword to Adam Naymanโs โDavid Fincher: Mind Games,โ director Bong Joon-ho explains his personal dichotomy for classifying films, dividing them into โcurvilinearโ (like those of Federico Fellini…
Goosebumps Remixes Its Source Material to Satisfying Results
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Adapting a property like Goosebumps, R.L. Stineโs beloved series of childrenโs horror novels, for the big (or small) screen in 2023 is a tricky proposition. Each of the sixty-two…
Why Horror Fiction Matters for Telling Indigenous Stories
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Iโve been consuming horror films and books from perhaps a too young age, though itโs worked out fine for me. Itโs been a formative genre for me as a…
16 Spooky Novellas by Women and Nonbinary Authors
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Whatย makes a spooky novella so satisfying? You might as well ask why a raven is like a writing desk. (The answer, of course, is that all three things remind…
Dann McDorman on Exploring Literary Hijinks and Meta Mystery
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While mysteries can usually be trusted to compel the reader within the first chapter or even the first few pages, itโs rare for them to hook us from the…
The Pigeon Tunnel, the New Film About John le Carrรฉ, is Intimate and Illuminating
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John le Carrรฉ (born David Cornwell) hated giving interviews. โFirst you invent yourself, then you believe the inventionโ, he wrote in his autobiography The Pigeon Tunnel. Despite these reservations,…
How Scarface Became a โFoundational Influence for Hip Hopโ
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Itโs hard to think of a $21 million dollar motion picture as a โcult movieโ but thatโs what Brian DePalmaโs 1983 Scarface almost became until it was saved by…
The New Season of โLupinโ Is Extravagant, Spectacular, and Occasionally Hard to Believe
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Two things jumped out at me back when I started watching the first season of Lupin, Netflixโs wildly successful show about a โgentleman thiefโ in Paris who spends his…