A collection of film reviews, critical analyses, and articles that I’ve written on various topics. Click the links below to read the full piece.
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Critical Analysis: Foreshadowing the Great Recession in The Exorcism of Emily Rose
A deep dive into the visuals of the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose reveals a haunting foreshadowing of the economic recession.
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Observations: How Waitressing Made Me Great at UX
From one industry to another - the not so unlikely skillsets used by servers and UX’ers in the workplace.
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Film Review: Cuckoo
The newly released horror film Cuckoo, written and directed by Tilman Singer and starring Hunter Schafer is a fresh new take on sci-fi adjacent horror that will leave you confused and horrified in the best way.
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Scene Study: Fiction
A scene study in the practice of fiction writing, as part of a larger piece.
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Film Review: Bones and All
The 2022 release of Luca Guadagnino’s movie Bones and All is a genre-bending romantic horror film about living on the run. It is a vampiric, cannibalistic, grotesque, haunting, and gut wrenching account of two young lovers coming of age at the margins of society.
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Book Review: The Final Girls Support Group
The Final Girls Support Group is a black comedy horror fiction novel written by Grady Hendrix, released in 2021. Hilarious and poignant, the novel is an inventive take on how we think about trauma and celebrity status.