Both films do a great job criss-crossing the unique mythologies of each character in these entertaining intra-genre mash-ups.

Hammer & Saw Films 12 min., dir. by William Peters, with Angela Borrello, Ben Watts, Michael Mooney, and Joshua Heggie This unique horror short, written [...]

The concept of the American Dream weighs heavily in both Showgirls (1995) and Lady of Burlesque (1943), as Deborah Hoople (Barbara Stanwyck) and Nomi Malone (Elizabeth [...]

With the creation of reality TV, everyone has the chance to become a celebrity.  The American Dream has been rewritten. No longer do you work [...]

I think Brundle-Fly (Jeff Goldblum in The Fly) said it best when he wondered aloud, “Have you ever heard of insect politics?” Unfortunately, I think [...]

Shakespeare’s plays were constructed on the backs of literary giants, and his tragedies continue to appear throughout modern popular culture. With the blessing of bloated [...]

The very first female prime minister of England and the bitchiest girl in school show that the struggles of a woman in a man’s world [...]

Both The Wages of Fear and Speed push the audience to the brink of anxiety with transports rigged to blow at any moment. In Henri-Georges Clouzot’s [...]

From out of racial misconceptions and prejudices, the minstrel show parodied African-Americans by accentuating their stereotypes. This week’s double feature comes out of the misunderstandings [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 The music of Duluth, Minnesota’s Low can sound pure and peaceful like a choir filled to the clouds with [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 Amin was frequently at Heathrow, traveling back and forth between his home in England and his parents in Dubai. [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #18 “So much for the city,” and with that I moved with my wife, Neenah, and two-year-old son, Brian, up [...]

Originally published in Boston Heights issue #1 Dido’s first album, No Angel, which sold 12 million copies worldwide since its release and went quadruple-platinum, isn’t [...]

Originally published in Boston Heights issue #1 108 min., dir. by Michel Gondry, with Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood, and Kirsten Dunst After finding [...]

Originally published in Boston Heights issue #1 Sony Pictures 106 min., dir. by David Koepp, with Johnny Depp, John Turturro, and Timothy Hutton While Secret [...]