Having no experience at all with horror/gore cinema and even less so with horror franchises, I started watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre without any idea of what to expect at all, except maybe that I'd feel a strong desire to turn it off during the gore scenes. This did happen during the first murder sequence, where the cruelty and suddenness of the killings profoundly disgusted me. The matter-of-fact-ness of the scene however also filled me with a deep sense…

Eyes Wide Shut is one of the most engaging and entertaining films I've seen in a long time. How great to see a movie attacking male hypocrisy from a filmmaker so often singled out as a favourite by the many bros of cinephilia! Could this be the reason I knew so little about the film before watching it, in comparison to say, the thoroughly spoiled 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining? Could this also explain why I was so…