Double Feature

Adolescents faces the threat of imminent demise. Soviet Montage Theory inspires Japanese CGI theory. The post Summer of 84 + As the Gods Will first appeared on Double Feature.

Mysterious crimes and the people who are obsessed with them. Also, mandatory darkwave jokes. People are sucking for The Cure Ending Explained. Agreeing on a premise for Cure. The so-called killer – what he does and how the role is … Continue reading → The post Cure + Zodiac first appeared on Double Feature.

The Halloween punchline no one asked for. Creating a synopsis for the indescribal Death Becomes Her. Special guest Zemeckis expert Michael Koester. Uncovering one of the truly great Bruce Willis performances that allowed him to then phone it in several … Continue reading → The post Death Becomes Her + So I Married an Axe Murderer first appeared on Double Feature.

Wrestling with the history of exploitation film. Film is wonderful worker exploitation is bad, and adding race makes everything more complicated. Can we still celebrate the art of those who were exploited? Film as historical documents. The additional context provided … Continue reading → The post Blacula + Pola X first appeared on Double Feature.

Something blue. What is aquatic horror? How Deep Rising under-sells what’s special about it, and what a proper logline of the actual movie would look like. The rag-tag crew trope. What fears does aquatic horror tap in to? The overwhelming … Continue reading → The post Deep Rising + Dagon first appeared on Double Feature.

Something borrowed. A remake of a remake, sort of. In House of Wax (1953), Vincent Price pitches a wax venture. Maintaining purity in artistic intentions. Later, a person who may or may not be Vincent Price’s character shows up to … Continue reading → The post House of Wax (1953) + House of Wax (2005) first appeared on Double Feature.

Celebrating October with something new. Leigh Whannell and James Wan are back, back to back. Michael divides modern horror intro three groups. Creating a “wow moment.” The post Upgrade + Malignant first appeared on Double Feature.

Celebrating October with something old. Two films about people outcasted from society and the roles the are relegated to play. The invention of cinema in Paris. Or Europe. Or, you know, New York. Film was born wherever you want to … Continue reading → The post The Hunchback of Notre Dame + What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? first appeared on Double Feature.

The acid western. Jim Jarmusch’s black and white rock western…noir? Cinematographer Rober Müller. The central figure of the western. Tiny Johnny Depp. William Blake has a full time job – as an accountant. As an accountant. Entering the spiritual world. … Continue reading → The post Dead Man + El Topo first appeared on Double Feature.

Differing poverties. Turns out, this is not a cheeky Double Feature. A fresh breath of filmmaking in Pather Panchali, a movie many people are still discovering for the first time. The way current films address diversity is still condescending. The … Continue reading → The post Pather Panchali + Kajillionaire first appeared on Double Feature.

Two intense films on opposite sides of the coin. Angst is a truly underground film, even today. Double Feature settles where in the the world these films actually come from. The internet hasn’t yet recognized the banned film Angst, and … Continue reading → The post Angst + The Guilty first appeared on Double Feature.

A deep dive into Technicolor. The experiment inspired by The Love Witch – what can be learned about technicolor by watch back to back? Plus, how Technicolor became a powerful influence on the style of the 1950s and how it’s … Continue reading → The post Gentlemen Prefer Blondes + The Love Witch first appeared on Double Feature.

The second chapter of the Exploitation + New French Extremity journey. This times, files that can be viewed around the world! Fortune smiles upon Double Feature as a theme of freedom and rebellion ties the parallel film movements together. The … Continue reading → The post The Wild Angels + Baise-moi first appeared on Double Feature.

Artful witches have an odd way. A coven helps break down the mise-en-scène with Suspiria (2018). The feeling of European arthouse films may have been buried in the 80s but it was resurrected by Suspiria in 2018. Mise-en-scène is a … Continue reading → The post Suspiria (2018) + Belladonna of Sadness first appeared on Double Feature.

A walk through youthful breezy films with a robust set of interpretive tools. Looking at Kiki’s Delivery Service after everything learned on the grand Ghibli journey. One tiny witch, one big village. Independence, it’s everything you ever wanted and nothing … Continue reading → The post Kiki’s Delivery Service + The House with a Clock in Its Walls first appeared on Double Feature.

Independent, and maybe Independent As Fuck. One of the all-time greatest comic book adaptations, Ghost World. It seems illegal to watch these actors in this film. A debate on whether or not every single person in Ghost World is fucking … Continue reading → The post Ghost World + Wiener Dog first appeared on Double Feature.

Enter the world of Wong Kar-wai with Chungking Express and the spiritual successor Fallen Angels. A day and night Hong Kong pair from a director who should have been on Double Feature a long time ago. The post Chungking Express + Fallen Angels first appeared on Double Feature.

Bottle films where mad men (of various numbers) make one or more participants play a deadly children’s game. Bonus points: films that are very aesthetically of their moment (or maybe even more specifically, a moment that summarizes the most popular … Continue reading → The post Ready or Not + Would You Rather first appeared on Double Feature.

The rough and tumble birds of existential cinema. Cockfighter as the rare Corman underdog. The drifter and the road film. Holding strong onto the extended bird metaphor. Don’t call Pigeons sky-rats. The composition of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch … Continue reading → The post Cockfighter + A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence first appeared on Double Feature.

Find two movies fucked up enough for each other. An interdisciplinary approach to subverting the issues of equality? Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! or Pedro Almodóvar’s ¡Átame! Representing the world as it is vs as we wish it was. … Continue reading → The post Tie Me Up Tie Me Down + The Witch Who Came From the Sea first appeared on Double Feature.