Tag: Support Team

  • 1BR by Jonny Numb

    1BR: A Fresh Angle As someone who’s never owned a home, apartment-based movies have always resonated with me. I consider Polanski’s “Apartment Trilogy” one of the unified masterpieces of cinema, because – from Repulsion to Rosemary’s Baby to The Tenant – he captures not only the dread of characters who are “different,” but the ominous…

  • For the Love of Veidt by Jonny Numb

    Conrad Veidt Resonates Over the course of his relatively short life, German actor Conrad Veidt appeared in over 100 films. With 2020 marking the centennial anniversary of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, it prompted me to consider three distinctive Veidt performances, how each is uniquely different from the others, and how they all resonate to…

  • My Journey Toward The Gates of Hell by Jonny Numb

    A Tale of Two Blockbusters I’ll admit it: I get nostalgic for my family’s Friday-night trips to our local Blockbuster Video. While people bemoan its existence as a beastly corporation that homogenized the video-rental experience, no two stores were completely alike. It was also the first place I ever saw a VHS copy of Lucio…

  • The Roots in the Blood: The Persistence of Folk Horror by Kim McDonald

    The Roots in the Blood Horror never goes away. It may lay low for a while, but as long as humans remain and are forced to confront their nature, and their precarious place in the environment, horror movies continue to be one of the most viable aspects of the business. In the same vein, despite…

  • The Lodge by Jonny Numb

    The Lodge: Accidentally Timely The Lodge speaks to our collective exhaustion. As Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn) sang in Blazing Saddles: “I’m tired… Tired of playing the game… Ain’t it a crying shame… I’m…so…tired.” The characters in this film are also at their wits’ end. The world we inhabit is one where many things have been…