Men of the Cloth and Creatures of the Night: Bad Priests and Good Vampires in ‘Midnight Mass’ and ‘Thirst’
Mike Flanagan and Park Chan-wook take the same idea — what if a priest was doing more than drinking the blood of Christ? — and spin strikingly different meditations on religion, faith, and morality…
In our biggest ever poll in 2012, 846 critics, programmers and curators nominated ten best movies ever made – and the results gave us a new top film, ending the 50-year reign of Citizen Kane.
The Beauty of Jean Cocteau’s ‘La Belle et la Bête’
The self-titled Belle and her captor-turned-prince Beast have returned to cinema screens around the world. In Disney’s latest live-action reiteration of one of their much-loved animated fairytales, Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty and the Beast has reintroduced contemporary audiences to the pair. With their return has come explorations of Disney’s representations of gayness, the question of […]
The Enduring Feminist Vision of The Silence of the Lambs
Madison Brek explores the feminist themes of The Silence of the Lambs and why Clarice Starling is one of the most important female characters of all-time.