Holding Out for a Heroine
I remember the first time I watched a Studio Ghibli film, my mom brought home a VHS of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) from the library when I was eight years old.
Jackie Brown: When Elmore Leonard Met Tarantino
When I first read a book by the late Elmore Leonard—one of the best-known crime authors in the world—I was 12 years old and fresh off a Clive Barker binge.
Everybody Don’t Need a Stuntman
On the set of the fictional Western television program Bounty Law, a promo host introduces both his fictional small screen audience and the viewer to the two ruggedly handsome cowboy types sitting beside one another.
False Mothers and Transcendent Witches
In the original 1977 film Suspiria, screenwriters Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi wove a dark lore around these figures: three powerful, evil witches known as the Mother of Tears, the Mother of Darkness, and the Mother of Sighs.
