Camo-clad officers swarm through a labyrinth of drab hallways to fetch their prisoners: seemingly normal children. These 20 or so 9-year-old kids each get the solitary confinement treatment but are all smiles when the soldiers barge into their rooms and strap them to the wheelchairs they’ll live in for the......
Stetson Kennedy took down the KKK after exposing its ludicrous and juvenile rituals and writings. The general public had been led to believe the Klan's multitudes were dangerous and powerful, wielding their burning crosses among their vast network of operatives. But Kennedy infiltrated its ridiculous meetings and called the group what it was......
In recent months, there have been serious calls for liberal city dwellers to reach beyond their “bubble” to better understand their rural counterparts. What’s rarely brought into the conversation: that large swaths of the so-called liberal elite have roots in rural places. These people, myself included, came of age among......
The horror anthology — multiple short films, often from different directors, all tied together with a wrap-around framing device — has been a staple of the genre since at least 1919 and the German Eerie Tales. Since then, horror has thrived in the short form, though television was the preferred......
Situated in a row of studios in the industrial district of Inglewood is a place where some of this last decade’s best action films have been hatched. This is 87eleven. Founders Chad Stahelski and David Leitch have created an all-purpose stunt school, and, here, Hollywood stars are trained to flip,......
In 1902, Dr. John Kellogg changed two letters in the word “sanatorium” — defined as a resting spot for disabled soldiers — and changed the world. “Sanitariums” became the health resort of choice for the wealthy and weary, instilling in the privileged a sense that they were perpetually ill, and......
In director Amma Asante’s epic political romance A United Kingdom, David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star as Seretse and Ruth Khama, the interracial royal couple who stunned the world when they fought to rule the country that would become the Republic of Botswana. The story’s a wildly interesting history lesson......
Contemporary American horror’s obsession with morality and psychotherapy can really be a downer. In 2002, Gore Verbinski expertly remade the J-horror hit Ringu with a layered story about a single mother (Naomi Watts) who watches a cursed videotape. To stop the curse, she travels through the warped psyche of the......
Emily Hagins was 12 years old when she directed her first feature film, Pathogen, a genre picture about a teenage girl whose dreams might hold the key to a strange, fast-spreading infection. Twelve years and three feature films later, her teen adventure comedy Coin Heist is streaming on Netflix. The......
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