Craven Family Values
Wes Craven gentrified the exploitation genre, but by the end of his career he was priced out himself
Paths to Gory
Human Centipede 3 is interpretive chum as catharsis
Teenage Screams
Sofia Coppola’s oeuvre dramatizes the emotional reality of adolescence without the condescension that comes from age
Black President
By cramming two blockbusters into a single screen, J Hoberman made White House Butler Down, the ultimate in late-Obama cinema