Cinema

Cinema
Review of Avatar: The Way of Water. In Review Online. 28 December 2022.

Numbness and Arousal in the Post-Postmodern Apocalypse of Too Old to Die Young. Vague Visages, 23 March 2022.

Review of Midnight. In Review Online. 25 August 2021.

Review of The Sadness. In Review Online. 25 August 2021.

Lizard Brain Ouroboros: Human Antiexceptionalism in Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive and Crocodile. American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper. University of Texas Press, 2021.

Review of Detention. In Review Online. 5 December 2020.

Review of Kriya. In Review Online. 28 August 2020.

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.