Category: 2020

MURDER DEATH KOREATOWN: Exploitation & Ignorant Whiteness in True Crime

On By C.H. NewellIn 2020, Film, Found Footage, Horror, Mystery, True CrimeLeave a comment

The line between found footage fiction and non-fiction blurs in this horrific true crime mystery.

“We’ve all got our car payments”: What We Lose for Money in DREAMLAND

On By C.H. NewellIn 2020, Bruce McDonald, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Film, Horror, Juliette Lewis, Stephen McHattie, Tony BurgessLeave a comment

I saved the world today. Everybody's happy now.

“It’s all her fault”: Gaslighting & the Virgin Mary in THE LODGE

On By C.H. NewellIn 2020, Cult, Film, Horror, Jaeden Martell, Religion, Richard Armitage, Severin Fiala, Veronika FranzLeave a comment

A weekend at the cabin with the kids isn't always what you bargained for when you made those plans.

BLOOD QUANTUM Takes a Nasty Bite Out of Colonialism & Whiteness

On By C.H. NewellIn 2020, Devery Jacobs, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Film, Forrest Goodluck, Jeff Barnaby, Kiowa Gordon, Michael Greyeyes, Stonehorse Lone Goeman, Zombies1 Comment

A new zombie flick with blood, gore, and wonderfully angry teeth that bite back at oppression.

The Language & Economy of Whiteness in THE QUARRY

On By C.H. NewellIn 2020, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Crime, Drama, Film, Immigration, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham1 Comment

The Quarry's only just mediocre, but still has important things it's trying to say.

WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE! & Tragic Modern Violence in Wild West Masculinity

On By C.H. NewellIn 2020, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Dark Comedy, Film, Horror, Kirill Sokolov, SplatterpunkLeave a comment

A neo-Western, without any West, that satirises and eviscerates the male need for revenge.

“This house is forever”: The Heteronormative Houses Capitalism Built in VIVARIUM

On By C.H. NewellIn 2020, Film, Garret Shanley, Horror, Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Lorcan Finnegan, Sci-Fi2 Comments

Come to Yonder— a heteronormative subdivision of your darkest capitalist nightmares.