When is a vampire movie not a vampire movie? When it’s Sinners. I’m totally cool with that, since we’ve had vampire movies all the way back to 1922 with the OG Nosferatu. For a century and change, the undead have slaughtered their way across movie screens, with virtually every possible variant having already been portrayed. […]

Good movies possess fearsome power. They can inspire you or piss you off, provide you with the motivation to get up and do something. Even in our age of disposable media, what else has that kind of influence? Consider this. Brokeback Mountain punched through decades of homophobia and, with an aching love story, helped to “normalize” the LGBT experience. […]

The year 1971 started off badly for the Northern Ireland city of Belfast, when the Irish Republican Army tarred and feathered several men. 3 riots broke out later that month in various neighborhoods in the city. In February, a British soldier had been killed by the IRA and two civilians were killed by British troops. […]