Author: Jacob Oller

If you’re a composition nerd, this video is for you. Contemporary superhero soundtracks have been notoriously mediocre. Forgettable loudness without melody, in service of some…

Ethereal abstraction makes for riveting animation. Animated short films are some of the most exciting and form-pushing entries into the medium and Dark Mixer is…

Interrogating the Midwest is a favorite film pastime. The cornfields and assumed simplicity of flyover country makes it one of the prime locations for horror…

Snyder brings the heat to a snowy period piece. The auteur of modern slow-mo, Zack Snyder has had a rough few years. Personally and professionally,…

I bet you can guess the one. Psycho is a masterpiece. It’s hard to argue much else. Its innovative horror changed not just the genre…

The phrase ‘indie darling’ shouldn’t apply to someone that should be everyone’s darling. After a killer debut of her new movie Lady Bird at TIFF,…

The character actor with the most character.

I’m tired of genre pedants. It and mother! have led to a disturbing number of people misunderstanding genre. Psychology is not just for the action-filled…

It’s usually so boring to watch words. Usually. We’ve written about the ways in which social media and communication technology are usually displayed on screen,…