In one scene in Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts, a character, frustrated over the success of a certain sparkling vampire book, asks, “So when millions of people like something, that means it’s good?” To which the other character wittily replies, “No, it means millions of people like it. These books make
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Two Cents and Too Cents: On an unspoken dilemma in film criticism
The world we live now is at an age for free-thinkers. Liberals, the fancier folks call them. There are good and bad sides to that. Both make very long lists. But when this privilege to free self-expression is threatened or lambasted, it guarantees the inflictor abysmal doom. A recent article
Maria Leonora Teresa
If the mechanics of terror are as superficial as placing drum-hits and cheat-scares, then the genre might as well be dismissed moot, at the easiest, as it is sometimes dismissed by the high-brow cinephile. And there is a reason why it is not. For one: the genre of horror — for
