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UNC Charlotte '18 graduate | Film Intern at CLTure | North Carolina Film Critics Association member | Lover of bad teen horror movies and 90s pop music

• “Suspiria” utilizes dance as a conduit for horror in ways not yet seen on screen before.

  By jhunterheilman on November 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s talk about the 1977 Suspiria, shall we? In the grand scheme of 20th-century horror, it doesn’t really get much finer than Suspiria. Sure, it’s pretty light on substance and heavy on style, much in the vein of other horror… Read More ›

• Charming neo-Western romp “The Old Man & the Gun” offers a grand old time. [Film Fest 919 Review]

  By jhunterheilman on October 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Representing EoM as press, contributor Hunter Heilman attended the first annual Film Fest 919 in Raleigh, NC, to review several films that are either in limited release now or are yet to be released. Or, in the case of The Old… Read More ›

• Brutal & harrowing, “22 July” explores the violence perpetrated within a single afternoon. [Film Fest 919 Review]

  By jhunterheilman on October 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Representing EoM as press, contributor Hunter Heilman attended the first annual Film Fest 919 in Raleigh, NC, to review several films that are either in limited release now or are yet to be released. This review of 22 July is merely… Read More ›

• Unfortunately, even inspired storytelling can’t help “Mermaid’s Song” sing on key.

  By jhunterheilman on September 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake; or perhaps in the case of Mermaid’s Song, the dust settles differently upon each poor family’s farm. Naturally, you can see that the saying isn’t quite as catchy as the one… Read More ›

• Craig William Macneill’s “Lizzie” examines the complicated life that spawned a legend.

  By jhunterheilman on September 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks; when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. A nursery rhyme beloved by fellow weird kids around the world, the tale of Lizzie Borden has… Read More ›

• The magic just isn’t there in “A Wizard’s Tale”.

  By jhunterheilman on September 14, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Let’s throw out the term “international animation.” What do you think of? Japan’s magically eloquent Studio Ghibli? Or perhaps the UK’s pleasantly quirky claymation studio, Aardman? Even France’s beautiful two-dimensional animation studio Folimage could come to mind. Mexico, however, hasn’t… Read More ›

• Documentary “Susanne Bartsch: On Top” explores an enigma at the heart of nightlife culture.

  By jhunterheilman on September 7, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  As a young, queer individual, it’s imperative for myself to know the history that has made the queer community so strong today: the culture, the tragedy, the struggle, and in the case of queer New Yorkers in the 1980’s, the… Read More ›