Seth Katz

1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | Seth Katz |Ed Gonzalez

After such high-profile flops as 2010’s The Wolfman and 2017’s The Mummy, the latter of which failed to launch Universal Pictures’s intended Dark Universe franchise, came a rare standout amid the studio’s ongoing project of rebooting its classic horror movies: Leigh Wannell’s The Invisible Man, which reframed the 1933 film (based on H.G. Wells’s novel) as an extreme case of stalking and gaslighting.

Jan 15, 2025 | slantmagazine.com | Seth Katz

After such high-profile flops as 2010’s The Wolfman and 2017’s The Mummy, the latter of which failed to launch Universal Pictures’s intended Dark Universe franchise, came a rare standout amid the studio’s ongoing project of rebooting its classic horror movies: Leigh Wannell’s The Invisible Man, which reframed the 1933 film (based on H.G. Wells’s novel) as an extreme case of stalking and gaslighting.

Nov 5, 2024 | slantmagazine.com | Seth Katz

Since 2016’s Fences, Denzel Washington has served as the cinematic midwife for August Wilson’s Century Cycle, a sequence of 10 plays depicting African American life in Pittsburgh during each decade of the 1900s. Following that first foray, which Washington starred in and directed, came George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and now, with Malcolm Washington at the helm, The Piano Lesson.

Oct 22, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Seth Katz

Skip to content interviews His beloved Electric Lit column "Unfinished Business" is now an essay collection that analyzes the creative processes of canonical writers It is perfectly understandable that many people would feel trepidation about having a writer in the family. What private foibles and peccadilloes might be used to define a fictional protagonist; which family secrets will be revealed in a memoir? Novelist Kristopher Jansma’s grandmother, a survivor of the Hunger Winter of 1944,...

Jun 27, 2024 | slantmagazine.com | Seth Katz

Nothing fancy, no pyrotechnics or sudden plot twists—just a wizened old cabbie and his female, millennial-aged passenger making their way from J.F.K. to midtown Manhattan, slowly revealing themselves and challenging each other’s assumptions. To help pass the time during an ugly traffic jam, they engage in a friendly game of conversational one-upmanship, each sharing details about their own life and offering perceptive observations about the other’s.