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  • Southern Movie 54: “Trapper County War” (1989)

    The Southern Movies series explores images of the South in modern films as well as how those images affect American perspectives on the region. If…

  • Six months into “Nobody’s Home”

    Though the website has been online a little longer, tomorrow (April 1) marks six months since Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore officially got started. The…

  • Watching: “Rooted in Peace” (2016)

    Like “Out of Print” and some of the other documentaries I’ve written brief posts about, I missed “Rooted in Peace” back in 2016. I rarely…

  • Penelope Spheeris’ “Suburbia” (1983)

    Penelope Spheeris’ “Suburbia” (1983)

    This post was originally published on level:deepsouth— for Generation X. I have no clue when I first saw Penelope Spheeris’ 1983 movie Suburbia. I was…