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Gender Bias and the Horror Film That Was Eaten by Disney: Zach Cregger’s Barbarian

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A brown-skinned woman with medium long, loose hair stands on an illuminated front porch of a house, facing the door. It's dark and raining outside, and the woman's hair and coat are wet.

|Penny Folger| “Your movie is like the Jaws of Airbnbs,” jokes Korey Coleman, host of the Double Toasted podcast to writer/ director Zach Cregger for whom Barbarian, in 2022, was his solo feature debut. For those who don’t remember the cultural impact of that record-breaking 1975… Continue reading

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Trailers from Heaven: How Barbarian’s Advance Publicity Made a Good Film Better

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A photograph of a young woman mostly in silhouette looking down a dark stairwell. She is wearing a white blouse and blue jeans and has her right hand on the doorframe

|Jay Ditzer| Half the fun (well, maybe a quarter of the fun) of going to the movies is the trailers shown before the main event. Do I want to see—or avoid—a new release? Well-made trailers are almost like tiny little movies themselves, and indeed, there’s an art to making a good trailer. The first rule of good trailers is … Continue reading