Category: movie

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    True confession time: I read a lot of Jane Austen in graduate school. This means having not only read Austen’s first-written, last-published horror-ish novel Northanger Abbey, but also The Mysteries of Udolpho,...

On Florence King and “Carol”

The recent passing of conservative writer and humorist Florence King has gotten a lot of press, and I can only find it fittingly ironic that King has passed while the move “Carol” is still...

Brooklyn: A Classic Film to Be

“Brooklyn” is one of the prettiest films I’ve seen in a long time, as well as a film that feels like updated classic cinema. The story of Irish girl Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan),  who...

Fantastic Fest Photo Recap!

Earlier this month, Fantastic Fest wrapped up. You might have caught the column I wrote about Fantastic Fest films from Africa for the Austin America-Statesman, the Fantastic Debates pictures I published or the LAZER...