Cinema
Mythic Conduits for Intimate Pain in Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat. Vague Visages. 30 June 2020.
Less Human Than Human: A Decade of Rob Zombie. In Review Online. 14 November 2019.
Some Kind of Connection: Loss and Technology in the Films of Sophy Romvari. Vague Visages. 15 May 2019.
Lords of Chaos (2019) by Jonas Åkerlund (with Andrew Swafford). Cinematary. 11 March 2019.
The Grease-Painted Corpse of Americana: Revisiting Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. HorrorNews.net. 14 February 2019.
Re-Fear: Halloween (2007) / Halloween II (2009) by Rob Zombie (with Nathan Smith). Cinematary. 31 October 2018.
Eli Roth Replaces Trademark Irreverence with Quiet Reverence for The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Vague Visages. 2 October 2018.
Mike Thorn returns to Kendall Reviews to share his favourite horror films from the 2000s. Kendall Reviews. 22 June 2018.
The Digital Perverse: Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D. Vague Visages. 13 February 2018.
Star Wars Dialogue: V. ‘Revision.’ (with Chelsea Phillips-Carr, Neil Bahadur, Isiah Medina and Isaac Goes). MUBI Notebook. 19 January 2018.
Star Wars Dialogue: IV. ‘The Griffith Legacy.’ (with Chelsea Phillips-Carr, Neil Bahadur, Isiah Medina and Isaac Goes). MUBI Notebook. 18 January 2018.
Star Wars Dialogue: III. ‘Art and Technology.’ (with Chelsea Phillips-Carr, Neil Bahadur, Isiah Medina and Isaac Goes). MUBI Notebook. 17 January 2018.
Star Wars Dialogue: II. ‘Avant-Garde vs. Classical.’ (with Chelsea Phillips-Carr, Neil Bahadur, Isiah Medina and Isaac Goes). MUBI Notebook. 16 January 2018.
Star Wars Dialogue: I. ‘A Long Time Ago.’ (with Chelsea Phillips-Carr, Neil Bahadur, Isiah Medina and Isaac Goes). MUBI Notebook. 15 January 2018.
Notebook’s 10th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2017. MUBI Notebook. 31 December 2017.
The Last Jedi: Enjoying Corporate Cinema’s Quasi-Risks While They Last. Bright Lights Film Journal. 25 December 2017.
Vague Visages Writers’ Room: 2017’s Under the Radar Films. Vague Visages. 12 December 2017.
Mike Thorn’s 10 favourite horror films from the 2010s. Kendall Reviews. 11 December 2017.
Underrated ’97 – Mike Thorn. Rupert Pupkin Speaks, 1 December 2017.
Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Favorite Halloween Movies. Vague Visages, 31 October 2017.
Andy Muschietti’s It Struggles with Adaptation. Vague Visages, 11 September 2017.
Hostel: Part II and the Monster of Neoliberal Late-Capitalism. The Film Stage, 8 June 2017.
‘No Desire If It’s Not Forbidden’: Dread, Eroticism, and Text Messaging in Personal Shopper. The Seventh Row, 30 March 2017.
The Aesthetic and Formal Challenges of Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt. Vague Visages, 1 March 2017.
Diary of the Dead and George A. Romero’s Formal Self-Awareness. The Film Stage, 14 February 2017.
The Many Peculiar Virtues of Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take. Vague Visages, 7 February 2017.
Moments of Revelation in Martin Scorsese’s Silence and Shutter Island. Vague Visages, 31 January 2017.
Genre Trauma in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split. MUBI Notebook, 23 January 2017.
What I Learned from Martin Scorsese’s Life Lessons. Vague Visages, 4 January 2017.
Toxic Masculinity and Empathetic Comedy: Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Vague Visages, 3 January 2017.
The Way of the Future: The Connections Between Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull and The Aviator. Vague Visages, 2 January 2017.
James Benning’s Stemple Pass: Minimalist Horror for Trump’s America. Vague Visages, 19 December 2016.
George Lucas’s Wildest Vision: Retrofuturist Auteurism in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). Bright Lights Film Journal, 15 November 2016.
Experimenting with the Horrific: A Reappraisal and Retrospective of the Films of Tobe Hooper. Bright Lights Film Journal, 6 October 2016.
Don’t Breathe, Just Keep on Surviving. Bright Lights Film Journal, 8 September 2016.
The Horror of a Nation’s Despair: Rob Zombie’s 31. Bright Lights Film Journal, 4 September 2016.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith: George Lucas’s Greatest Artistic Statement? Bright Lights Film Journal, 28 August 2016.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Terror Trilogy: Signs (2002), The Village (2004), and The Happening (2008). Bright Lights Film Journal, 22 August 2016.
The Relocation of Monstrosity: An Analysis of Horror in Brian De Palma’s Carrie. Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review, vol. 1.1, 2013.
