A graduate of Roger Corman’s school of low-budget ingenuity, director Joe Dante rose to the challenge of The Howling, an instant werewolf classic. Makeup wizard Rob Bottin created what was then the wildest onscreen transformation ever seen. With Gary Brandner’s novel The Howling as a starting point, Dante conceived a werewolf colony on the California […]
The Devil Wears Prada
Andrea “Andy” Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite ridiculing the shallowness of the fashion industry, she lands the job a million girls would kill for: junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the icy editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine. Andy puts up with Miranda’s bizarre and humiliating […]
Gay Cinematherapy
Think Will and Grace Go to the Movies and you’ve got Gay Cinematherapy: The Queer Guy’s Guide to Finding Your Rainbow One Movie at a Time, a film guide that understands what gay men and their best friends have known for years: that the Oscars isn’t just an awards show but the Gay Super Bowl, […]
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture
Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically—every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come up with another twist—it has been one of the most often-dissected genres. Here, author Kendall Phillips selects ten of the most popular and influential […]
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