silence of the lambs

Welcome back. It’s still January. Somehow. I’m not sure what the exact date is, but I could swear it was the 38th some day last week. Of course, being named after the two-faced Roman god Janus, there’s another side to January and I, for…

Few films can boast the ripple effect that The Silence of the Lambs lays claim to. On the one hand, it introduced us to one of modern cinema’s greatest villains and a universal pop-culture shorthand for derangement in Hannibal Lecter…

I don’t know about you, random internet reader, but amongst many of the film’s now iconic moments there is one shot in Jonathan Demme’s genre defining The Silence of the Lambs that has always stuck out the most in my mind. No, it’s not a…