Gothic, Dull and Sharp: George Sluizer’s The Vanishing

A close-up image of a missing person poster showing a black-and-white image of Saskia. The poster is glued to a tree on a city street

|MH Rowe| You might say The Vanishing (1988) tells the tale of two creepy men. One is a fretful, controlling boyfriend, the other a methodical murderer. With a different emphasis, the director George Sluizer might have smoothed out the boyfriend and signaled to the audience that we aren’t supposed to understand Rex Hofman (Gene Bervoets) as a creep… Continue reading

For The Love of Small-Town Community Theater

The cast of Red, White and Blaine sit and listen to director Corky St. Clair

| Lucas Vonasek | Nothing ever happens in small towns. If you’ve never lived in one, it’s difficult to imagine what they can offer that a city cannot, whether that is a burgeoning nightlife scene, diverse cuisine options, or that alluring energy that only a hip metropolis can offer. However… Continue reading

100 Nazi Scalps: Tarantino’s Violent Art of Rewriting History with Inglourious Basterds

Lt. Aldo Raine addresses his soldiers.

| Dan Howard | Quentin Tarantino makes his despise for Hitler and the Nazi party well-known. The vast majority would agree. Over the last nearly 15 years, Tarantino made his own kind of historical revisionist cinema with Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Continue reading