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Pulse is one of the more ambitious films that use the paranoia of the internet as a weapon...
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After the success of Ringu, the next novel in the series by Koji Suzuki was tapped for a...
Getting Along With the Nightcrawler (2014 Film) By Dan Gilroy
It is no secret that Dan Gilroy wanted to make a movie about Arthur Fellig (aka Weegee), the famous photographer whose instant and...
Colorful Dread in Kwaidan (1964 Film) by Masaki Kobayashi
The 1904 book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things was a collection of Japanese ghost stories, mythology,...
The Top 15 Best Japanese Horror Movies You Have to Watch (Ranked From Best to Worse)
While there is a slew of great scary movies made around the world, the best Japanese horror films...
Suicide Club: A Deep Dive Into a J-Horror Cult Classic (2001 Film) By Sion Sono
In 2001, a controversial, gruesome little film called Suicide Club made its way around the indie film fest...
The Taboo Thrills of Battle Royale (2000 film) By Kinji Fukasaku
Growing up in the anime fandom of the 2000s, one of the most bootlegged movies was Battle Royale...
Finding the Meaning in Madness Within Cure (1997 Film) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure (1997) is a psychological thriller with no easy answers. A series of murders are occurring...
The Midnight Meat Train (2008 Film) By Ryuhei Kitamura
If you go into a movie with a name like The Midnight Meat Train, you probably aren’t expecting...
We Have Been Reading “The Americans” by Robert Frank Wrong This Whole Time!
After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing anymore whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin....
Growing up and Better Living Through Spirited Away (2001 Film) By Hayao Miyazaki
If there’s one film I can say for certain that made Hayao Miyazaki a household name in American...
The Conflicting Gender War of Audition (1999 film) by Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike is one of the most unpredictable of Japanese directors. His subversion of the yakuza genre is...
The Creeping Terror of Ju-On: The Grudge (2002 Film) By Takashi Shimizu
Writer and director Takashi Shimizu conceived of a more moody type of horror with Ju-On: The Grudge. He...
9 Proven Marketing Tips for Photographers to Market Their Freelance Services
Freelancing, what kind of picture comes to mind when you hear this word? Probably something like this, you...
A Guide to Effective Use of Negative Space in Street Photography
Negative space is an extremely powerful compositional tool in photography! Yes, we are talking about quick and easy...
Photography and the Youth Code
Youth and adolescence are both terms that are often used to refer to a particularly bitter-sweet phase of...
The Illusion of Happiness Spotted by Steve Cutts (2017 Short Film)
Cutt’s short film on happiness brilliantly illustrates some of the sophisticated effects capitalism has figured out to keep...
A Quick & Easy Guide on Natural Framing for Street Photography
Composition is a rather important aspect of photography. There are lots of great books on composition within photography...
Crossing Through the Unsettling Murkiness of Dark Water (2002 Film) By Hideo Nakata
Director Hideo Nakata and cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi, who both worked on the classic 1998 film Ringu, reunited to...
