4 items collected by: Rori Ryan

Contagion: Pandemics and Mismanagement

Contagion uses documentary-style realism and a sprawling, networked narrative to make its fictional pandemic feel disturbingly plausible. Rather than building around a single hero, it tracks interlocking stories…

Sinners and Insidious: Shadows Cast by Our Own Convictions

What We Already Know About Horror Movies Before even pressing play on a horror movie, audiences carry expectations built through years of genre conventions. We anticipate fear, tension,…

Run Lola Run: Smallest Decisions can Alter Everything

Run Lola Run (1998) tells the story of Lola, who has 20 minutes to save her boyfriend Manni from disaster after he loses a bag full of money….

Prey, Creating Film for Indigenous Female Hunters

Prey, Creating Film for Indigenous Female Hunters Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey reimagines the Predator franchise by situating its primal themes of hunting, survival, and power in the 18th-century Comanche…