I’m Chuck Winters, I’m on the spectrum, and the concept of this movie—an emotionally charged thriller with an autistic lead character from the director of Warrior—was pulled directly from fantasies I didn’t even know I had. Nice to meet you. Let’s get a couple of Read More …
My friend, who is a massive kaiju film fan, called me up two weeks ago to say that a new Godzilla movie was coming to a local theater. For days after, he would keep hounding me to buy a ticket until I eventually bought one. Read More …
“Even after the flesh perishes, one can live in the hearts of others together with the feelings one has for them” There has never been a haunted house film more simultaneously joyous and creepy as Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 film Hausu (also known as House in Read More …
By Andrew Tucker In 1979, Ridley Scott’s Alien famously boasted, “In space, no one can hear you scream,” and it certainly feels that way watching the film today. The Alien franchise is one that relies less on crying out-loud thrills and more on uncomfortable, disturbing Read More …
Welcome to Angry Turtle!, a series featuring Deadshirt.net’s own Patrick Stinson and guest writer Andrew Tucker. We are going to be looking at the Gamera series, the films made by a rival studio to compete directly with the famous Godzilla series. The name comes from Read More …
Nicholas Stoller is so blisteringly talented he can make a pop culture joke in an animated kids film work. It’s not that there’s some great story to the film itself giving him the leeway, although there’s a clever idea here about storks giving up baby Read More …
There are a hundred ways to measure what makes a great movie, but nothing speaks more highly about a film than how closely you can read it. In his feature, Deadshirt Editor-In-Chief Dylan Roth explores one of his favorite films by demonstrating just how much there is to Read More …
For some people, watching a movie set in or around Hollywood is just too much inside baseball. But for the diehards, exploring the world of filmmaking has birthed some of the medium’s greatest triumphs. Over the next few months, our very own Dominic Griffin is going to Read More …
Have you read this bullshit? It doesn’t seem like a lot of people on Film Twitter have, and yet, somehow, the collective jerk-off motion they made last Saturday over Ty Burr’s opening sentence in his Boston Globe op-ed—”Someday we may look back on 2016 as Read More …
Silver Streak Arthur Hiller’s 1976 film — the first and best on-screen pairing of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor — is half madcap road comedy, half Hitchcockian thriller. Wilder plays George Caldwell, unsuspecting book editor looking for rest and relaxation turned unwilling action hero, with Read More …