With Halloween just around the corner, and teenagers looking to get scared, it’s easy to believe that Quarantine is going to be a money-making machine. It will sail to the top of the box office opening weekend, but will die out when the next Saw thing comes out in a couple of weeks. It will [...]

So I saw Dario Argento’s Mother of Tears at Seattle’s International Film Festival, the biggest film festival in the United States (but not North America, no, that honor goes to Toronto).
Argento’s colorful four-decade career as an Italian horror master and auteur has been well-documented and much-commented-upon. His creativity was really at its zenith in the [...]