Plot Points: Gaslighting and Horror as Social Commentary in 2020
Ever feel like the only sane person around?
Category: Plot Points
“We could be the Three Amigos for real”: Collisions of Fantasy and Reality in Cinema
Movies that blur the lines we take for granted.
The Post-Modern Vampire: “Nadja” and “The Addiction”
In the 1990s, two vampire films dared to go deep.
‘Rise’ and ‘Conquest’: The Dual Geneses of ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
The Planet of the Apes franchise has reinvented itself more than once. “Reboots” are now commonplace, but they started here.
Plot Points: The Wraith and the World-Building Power of Insufficient Exposition
The movie poster, the year, and the cast trick us into thinking The Wraith is just another cheesy 80s flick. In reality it is something much more perplexing.
Beyond Caesar: The History and Movies Behind the Coens’ Latest
Let’s look a little below the surface of the latest Coen Brothers film “Hail, Caesar!” to discover which elements are pulled from various bits of real Hollywood history and legend, as well as the films produced in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
6 Things We Want to See in Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens a massive success, it’s time to start looking ahead to Episode VIII. Here are just a few things we want to see Disney put into the next chapters of our favorite saga.
Ranking the Many Endings of “The Return of the King”
Think there are too many endings in this movie? Still upset that the Scouring of the Shire isn’t one of them? Come rank RETURN OF THE KING’s endings with us.
The “Blofeld Order”: a Better Way to Watch the Bond Films
SPECTRE reimagined Bond’s archnemesis and made us rethink the way we watch 007. Our suggested viewing order fixes continuity problems old and new.
Plot Points: Early Spielberg and The Horrors of Broad Daylight
What makes a Spielberg movie a Spielberg movie? In the 1970s, it was scary stuff happening in daylight.
