Jane Campion

April 27, 2025

“Performers are so vulnerable. They’re frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it’s warm, where it’s OK to fail — a kind of home, I suppose.”

The King Tide (2023)

Undercover: Inside the Bunker (2025)

Earthlings (2005)

Food, Inc. (2008)

Bring Her Back (2025)

Ballerina (2025)

Marshmallow (2025)

Echo Valley (2025)

Frewaka (2024)

It Feeds (2025)

Last Straw (2023)

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Die Alone (2024)

Presence (2024)

The Damned (2024)

The Leftovers – A Lonely Journey Through Loss, Faith, and Human Fragility

The Importance of Dystopia in Sci-fi / Horror

Asylums: Factual Mental Illness vs Artistically Deranged Projection (Podcast)

Powerful Sequences, Defining Soundtracks

The Psychology of Horror: Preparedness and Purpose (Podcast)

Silent Era: The Foundation of Cinematic Horror (Podcast)

Found Footage: The Beginning, the Escalation, and its Societal Impact (Podcast)

The Horror Inside Us: Leading Anxieties and False Certainties (Podcast)

Directors and Horror Films (Podcast)

Kids in Horror: Source of Evil vs Source of Resolution (Podcast)

Influential, Dissuasive, and Thought-Provoking Monologues

Epic Plot Holes in Iconic Films

This is England ’83 / ’86 / ’88 / ’90

The Qatsi Trilogy

Original vs Remake: Hollywood’s Need to Retell the Story (or the Lack Thereof)

Indie, Low Budget, and Utterly Mind-Bending

Jane Campion

Squid Game: Bloodsport, Debt, and the Death of Innocence

Lana Wachowski

Demonic Horror and Cinema’s Religious Nightmares

Ethan Coen