Friday, January 16 2009
The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008
Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.
Wednesday, October 1 2008
The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies
Monday, April 21 2008
Cloverfield
By being both absolutely verisimilar and absolutely unreal, Cloverfield highlights the extent to which reality is natively constructed.
Friday, August 19 2005
Supercross: The Movie (2005)
The brothers race against a spectacular California backdrop, with the sort of ridiculous fearlessness that afflicts boys in sports action movies.
Monday, March 1 2004
MTV’s Wuthering Heights
You can almost hear the producers' pitch: 'It's Heathcliff and Catherine via Justin and Britney -- tragic love, but without all those heavy wool broadcloths.'
Thursday, October 16 2003
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
One by one, the kids wander inside the Terrible Place, and all but one can't escape.
