The Evolution of Happy Hardcore into Modern Hyperpop
Hyperpop can be seen as a spiritual successor to happy hardcore, inheriting its high-energy, accessible ethos while adapting it to the fragmented, internet-driven landscape of the 2010s and 2020s.
Cinema and Video
A Reappraisal of Ridley Scott’s The Counselor: A Brutal, Misunderstood Gem of the 2010s
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The Counselor is not just a film but an experience—one that lingers long after the credits roll, like a nightmare from which there is no awakening.
Cinema and Video
Where are you, Megan?
“Megan Is Missing” isn’t just a film; it’s a fracture in the facade, a call to rebuild before the next chat pings with doom.
Metacinema and Pornopolitics in A Serbian Film
A Serbian Film* uses its metacinematic framework to dissect pornopolitics as a mechanism of control.
The Pinchuk Art Centre: Two Decades of Cynical Art-Washing for Ukraine’s Most Polished Oligarch
The question for Ukraine—and for the Western art world that enabled it—is how many more decades this particular laundering operation will be allowed to run.
The Abyss Stares Back: Existential Despair, Horror, and Violence in the Cinema of Khavn de la Cruz
Through his transgressive lens, Philippine cinema becomes a universal mirror, compelling us to confront what it means to exist—and to persist—in the face of the void.
The Beautiful and the Abject: A Philosophical Analysis of Marian Dora’s Underground Horror Cinema and Nihilist Worlds
To dismiss Dora’s cinema as merely “sick” or “depraved” is to miss the point, and perhaps to engage in the very moral comfort that his films are designed to destroy.
Cinema and Video
The Ontology of Horror in Adam Rehmeier’s The Bunny Game and Its Role as Extreme Therapy for Lead Actress Rodleen Getsic
The film endures as avant-garde testament: horror not as escape, but as ontological truth and redemptive rite.