Hello again! Well, 2020 certainly started out with a global sense of dread, didn’t it? In this unprecedented era of self-quarantine, we are all scrambling to find some semblance of normalcy, even if we know living out our once-daily regimens is impossible right now. But one of the beauties of forced simplicity, in a manner […]
Hello again! It’s been far too long since I’ve written anything for Film Bleed, so before I start discussing films of 2019, I’d like to say that I do intend to write more in 2020. Last year was quite a hectic one — full of various personal shifts and life changes, but despite that, I […]
Now that we’re a month into 2019, and in the midst of awards season, I thought it appropriate to look back on the films of last year. 2018 was an interesting year for film. Between Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians, last year saw record-breaking firsts for the industry, while independent cinema was held in high regard with […]
For the past 120 years, people have flocked to movie theaters in the hopes of witnessing things that will expand their imaginations. Up until relatively recently, the theater was the one place audiences would go for film exhibition. Nowadays, if we choose to, we can have some semblance of a movie-watching experience using the same […]
Ahhh — Halloween is upon us once again. It’s that wonderful moment in the year when autumn is in full swing. The sun hangs lower in the sky, the air is crisp and the leaves crunch beneath scattering feet. The summer is off far behind us, but the winter is not yet upon us. It’s […]
Since the dawn of storytelling, women have always played an important role in shaping how narratives are told, especially in the horror genre. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley famously penned, as a teenager mind you, one of the most iconic literary classics of all time, Frankenstein (1818). Lois Weber, the godmother of American cinema, changed the way […]
HELLO there, and welcome to Film Bleed. This is a place where I (you can call me Lou) ramble on about film. There will be a bit of a skew towards the horror and sci-fi genres, but I am a lover of all cinema, across the board, and will thereby cover all sorts of ground. […]
