The Quarantine Playlist: Anatomy of a Murder
There’s something so inherently American about the legal drama. It’s the idea that our institutions work the way they’re supposed to, the idea that fairness and right will win out….
Author: T. Dawson
Trevor Dawson is the Executive Editor of GAMbIT Magazine. He is a musician, an award-winning short story author, and a big fan of scotch. His work has appeared in Statement, Levels Below, Robbed of Sleep vols. 3 and 4, Amygdala, Mosaic, and Mangrove. Trevor lives in Denver, CO.
The Quarantine Playlist: Amistad
When you found your own film studio, you can do whatever the hell you want. It’s common knowledge. That’s not quite what Steven Spielberg did after co-founding Dreamworks, but it’s….
The Quarantine Playlist: The American Friend
It’s all about escape, and identity, in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game. Wenders’ film is hallucinatory and dreamlike where Highsmith’s prose is….
The Quarantine Playlist: Alien: Resurrection
If there didn’t exist a venerable franchise based around the word Alien, would anyone have gone to see a movie called Alien: Resurrection? It’s an objectively stupid, terrible title, better….
The Quarantine Playlist: Alien 3
What an impossible task first-time director David Fincher had in front of him: make a (mostly unnecessary) follow-up film to Alien and Aliens, two films that represent the apex of….
The Quarantine Playlist: The Abyss
I own more movies than I do brain cells, by which I mean I have a bad habit of buying films I’ve never seen, based solely on recommendations. Sometimes this….
GAMbIT’s Oscar nomination predictions
With the Golden Globes in the books (and The Irishman egregiously robbed), it’s now time for the reason of the season: the Academy Awards. 2019 was a stellar year for….
Cats is a horny, harrowing descent into madness
There are dark vistas of this universe, forbidden plains where even the gods fear to tread. The sights…oh, reader, the sights are obscene, some beautiful, all beyond comprehension. The foul….
The Best Movies of 2019
Wow, what an embarrassment of riches this year was. This was an exceedingly hard list to compile; there was such a glut of good films that I didn’t have time….
31 Days of Fright: Saw
“I want to play a game.” It’s hard to think of a horror film with a more misbegotten legacy than that of Saw. It somewhat unfairly is looked upon as….
31 Days of Fright: The People Under the Stairs
“Can’t get out. No one ever has.” The People Under the Stairs would be a largely forgettable slasher for any number of reasons. It’s certainly not up to snuff with….
31 Days of Fright: Honeymoon
“Something bad happened to me in the woods.” How well do we know each other? Any of us? How well can one human fully understand another, no matter how deep….