Articles tagged "robert gunner"

Column: Dread Reckoning

The Demise of Horror Culture?

by Marco Lanzagorta

[13.May.08] :. While the horror classics of 1968 may have indeed revitalized the genre, few today are aware of these movies' impact on the canon...if they acknowledge them at all.

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PopMatters Picks: The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Feature

Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking

by PopMatters Staff

[19.Jun.07] :. Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts.

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Film Feature

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

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Film Review

Planet of the Apes (2001)

by Sabadino Parker

...reminds us that we may not be the end product of some divine plan, or necessarily very important to the universe.

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