Growing Fangs: How "Ginger Snaps" Ties Puberty to Werewolves
John Fawcett’s "Ginger Snaps" intertwines the lore of the werewolf to the hellish experience of a young girl going through puberty.

Anna and her mother Elena, two vampires isolated from the rest of the world, try to survive in Paris by tracking down cybercriminals at night on social networks. But, between Elena’s illness, her repeated anxiety attacks and the hunts becoming more and more dangerous; tensions rise, and the demons of the past resurface. Anna, on the brink of madness, begins to fall in her dark sides.
John Fawcett’s "Ginger Snaps" intertwines the lore of the werewolf to the hellish experience of a young girl going through puberty.
This year, in light of the pandemic and the inability to gather with our loved ones, a few of our staff members reviewed their favorite holiday films with the hope of recreating some of the sentimentality that reminds us of home.
Sweetheart provides a stark example of self-isolation taken to its extreme.
True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.
21 Bridges isn’t going to revolutionize action cinema. However, its action components are respectable. Every act is visibly clear, and as time moves forward, the film changes its conflictual rhythm.