The Babadook, the first feature film from Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent, is terrifying almost to the point of nausea. In terms of execution, Kent opts for steady, dependable tricks of the trade. The Babadook is a slow burn that doesn’t reveal its monster until it needs to. When it Read More …
Film is an entertainment medium that, by its very nature, tends to reward the viewer in rewatch. Sometimes movies even reveal to us how we’ve grown or changed since we last saw them. Our own Max Robinson reassesses old favorites, seasonal classics and the occasional oddball lost under the couch in his monthly Read More …
There’s never been a better excuse to watch as many noir films as humanly possible than the cinephile community’s current favorite portmanteau. Deadshirt has decided to throw in with a month of essays highlighting some of our favorite works in the pantheon for Noirvember… As Read More …
Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers, and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on Big Two cape titles, creator-owned books, webcomics and more. For more of our thoughts on this week’s new comics, take a look at Wednesday’s Deadshirt Comics Shopping List. Read More …
Watching Jake Gyllenhaal as the earnestly amoral Lou Bloom, you’re immediately drawn to his eyes, almost perpetually wide. Gyllenhaal’s subtle yet transparently surface level mannerisms are a huge part of his performance here, but there’s special emphasis on how cartoonishly doe-like his eyes become as Read More …
Film is an entertainment medium that, by its very nature, tends to reward the viewer in rewatch. Sometimes movies even reveal to us how we’ve grown or changed since we last saw them. Our own Max Robinson reassesses old favorites, seasonal classics and the occasional oddball lost under the couch in his Read More …
October 9th through 12th saw the New York Comic Con return to Javits Center, bigger and more jam packed with stuff than before. And while NYCC saw its fair share of comic announcements, film and television promotion dominated a substantial portion of the scheduled panels. Read More …
This October, Deadshirt staff revisits some of our favorite horror movies from a variety of subgenres and breaks down what makes them so memorable, so clever, and so terrifying. This week: The mother of all haunted house movies, The Haunting. I’ve been a fan Read More …
If you know me, you know that I love Nicolas Cage movies. The dazzling highs (Raising Arizona will never get its due in the Coen Brothers canon), the fascinating middles (Vampire’s Kiss!) and the blistering lows. And while Cage makes a pretty steady stream of bad Read More …
Art Official Age is many things at once. A funk album bombarded by cosmic rays and mutated into something else. A semi-autobiographical sci-fi concept album about love and partying in the twenty-teens. A mess. Disappointing in some respects and admirable in others, Prince’s follow up Read More …