Articles tagged "john carpenter"

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs Feature

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 1

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Oct.08] :. Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.

Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs

 

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Bloodsucking Cinema

by Marc Calderaro

[1.Oct.08] :. Surely there has to be more interesting things to say about vampires than that they're "cool" and "scary"?

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Film Review

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

by David Sanjek

[7.Apr.03] :. Carpenter refuses to reduce the violence to a sideshow of blood squibs or special effects pyrotechnics.

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Film Review

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

In 'Ghosts of Mars', Desolation is a perfect candidate to ensure the human-humans' survival: not only is he the resilient and brilliant Ice Cube, but he is also the consummate delinquent champion.

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Big Trouble in Little China (1986/2001)

by David Sanjek

Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) is the anti-hunk, the inverse of the pectorally endowed fighting machines typified by Stallone and Schwarzenegger.

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