Mid Sommar "I know what you did last midsommar!": Directed by Nelson Ascencio. With Nelson Ascencio.
It's why in Sweden, people celebrate Midsommar on the summer solstice. It's a gathering to reconnect with nature and honor the long days ahead, in part because of the country's history of farming. The solstice happens in the peak of the growing season. "We were coming into this time ...
TeXmas and Virginia:We visited our families in Texas and Virginia at the end of the year. We usually visit Texas for July 4th, but were not able to due to our work schedules. I appreciated the opportunity to reconnect with family in Virginia I had not seen since I moved to Stockholm....
Welcome to the Circle(VOD and DVD/Blu-ray October 27)If you encounter mysterious danger while camping in the woods and are then “rescued” by three beautiful, serene women dressed all in white, you have definitely been kidnapped by a cult. That’s what happens to Greg (Matthew MacCaull)...
The Robot Chicken crew takes a peek at what it's like working in the Hall of Doom, the grief Batman goes through whenever he has to ride in one of Green Lantern's power ring bubbles, the origin of Starro, and what happens when the DC villains end up on the same beach as the DC ...
The ending was the number one thing in my original pitch. I wanted to end it where I did because this is a story about how a person gets to this point [in his life,] not what happens afterwards. Not to spoil it too much, but Will gets to the point in his life where he is so...
Every film teaches something to viewers and writers — no matter the genre or subject matter. It just so happens that horror writers can glean a lot of lessons from films about cults in particular. Maybe it’s because, at the end of the day, the enemies are ourselves, our ...
I was thinking less about other movies than I was about certain artists — like, Joel-Peter Witkin came to mind. But without spoiling anything, what excited me about what we were doing was how we get to what happens [at the end of the film], and how that should feel. It’s not ra...
Baumeister is so interested in the etymology of “forgiveness” — which, I am proposing is the opposite of holding a grudge — is that there is something about restoring the value of a relationship that happens when we forgive someone. And there is the refusal to do that when we hold a...