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Robert Johnson and the Devil Man: Sinners, Symbols, and Black Mythology.
Sinners is a blues song brought to life as a vampire flick—soulful, blood-soaked, and steeped in Southern mysticism. The reimagining of...
Michael LaRocco
May 21 min read


The Body as Horror: The Substance and the Art of Disintegration
The Substance is a brilliant work of art that firmly belongs in the tradition of body horror as fine art. My mind is reeling—there’s so...
Michael LaRocco
Mar 231 min read


From Kindness to Cruelty: The Slippery Slope of The Girl with the Needle
The Girl with the Needle directed by Magnus von Horn is a haunting exploration of morality as a slippery slope, where cruelty...
Michael LaRocco
Feb 12 min read


A Cinematic Odyssey in The Brutalist
Brutalism is not merely an architectural style, but a metaphor for the raw, unyielding forces that shape the immigrant experience in...
Michael LaRocco
Jan 142 min read


Unveiling Trauma: The Conceptual Storytelling of Nickel Boys
Ramell Ross's film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Nickel Boys is a powerful and haunting exploration of the emotional and...
Michael LaRocco
Jan 41 min read


The Sound of Silence: How The Zone of Interest Exposes the Banality of Evil"
The Zone of Interest lives and dies by what it refuses to show us. It is this powerful contrast—between what is visible and what is...
Michael LaRocco
Jan 42 min read


Capturing the Enigma: The Art of Portraying Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown
James Mangold's extraordinary A Complete Unknown captures Bob Dylan as the enigma he truly was—part poet, part misfit, part vagabond,...
Michael LaRocco
Jan 42 min read


Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar
Man in Polyester Suit is a photograph by American artist and provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe. The photograph is a black and white sepia...
Michael LaRocco
Jan 21, 20228 min read


Who's Afraid of Martha?
Martha, the self-loathing heroine of Edward Albee’s searing 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is the embodiment of the gay icon...
Michael LaRocco
Aug 25, 202111 min read
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