Spoiler Alert: This post contains major plot spoilers for Mysterious Skin. Scott Heim’s 1995 novel Mysterious Skin, which was later adapted into a film by Gregg Araki, tells the story of two Kansas ...

The 21st century has seen any number of films about the stories people tell themselves in order to rationalize and reconfigure their trauma, but none have been more raw or powerfully true to life than ...

Of all the representations of pedophilia in movies recently, from "Mystic River" to Kevin Bacon's powerful performance as a recovering abuser in "The Woodsman" to Todd Solondz's treatment of the ...

“Mysterious Skin” concludes on the bittersweet and wordless reunion of Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “(500) Days Of Summer”) and Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet, “Funny Games”), accompanied by ...

"MYSTERIOUS SKIN" is a helter-skelter ride of the soul, an unblinking, white-knuckle crash landing into the mushy mysteries of the subconscious. Gregg Araki's movie, which makes an ingenious, dark ...

In her column “As Ribka Likes It,” Ribka Desta ’27 introduces her favorite pieces of media and justifies how and why they have taken up her time and invaded her mind. Scott Heim ended his debut novel ...

Independent filmmaker Gregg Araki (The Doom Generation) takes his first stab at adaptation (2004) with this screen version of Scott Heim’s 1995 novel, and the result is flawed but frequently haunting.