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LizzyLemonDrop's Cinema Thoughts

I'm a cinema student who spends 3 days a week at the movies. Expect reviews and essays that get reworked into articles.

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Not in My Movie

The Scream slasher franchise is renowned for its self-aware meta comedy, rendering it a commentary on the slasher subgenre of horror as a...

Loving the Bad Man - Hitchcock on Women

Alfred Hitchcock had a complicated relationship to his female characters. While often multilayered active agents, women were rarely the...

Class Warfare in Horror and Science-Fiction

One of the most constant issues facing most societies for as long as people can remember is class disparity. This issue was the basis of...

Welles’s Shakespeare Update

Film studies professor and author Michael Anderegg wrote that Orson Welles holds an “unparalleled place in American life as a mediator...

Alien: An Accidental Masterpiece

The 1979 film Alien was directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. A brilliant science-fiction horror film, it was met by...

Lady Vampires

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a well-regarded Iranian-American independent horror film from 2014, written and directed by Ana Lily...

Laughter is the Best Medicine

“With comedy, we can rob Hitler of his posthumous power” -Mel Brooks. Question and debate about the ethicacy of approaching the Holocaust...

The Gay Hunger

The Hunger is a 1983 vampire film starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon. The directorial debut of Tony Scott, the...

Sexy Fascism

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is a 1975 sexploitation film directed by Don Edmunds and starring Dyanne Thorne. The film is controversial, and...

Royale with no CHEESE

The 2006 Casino Royale is a reboot for the James Bond franchise. Directed by Martin Campbell, this film’s iteration of Bond is played by...

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