Friday, May 25 2012
Sherlock Holmes, Dirk Gently and the Case of the Eccentric Detective
With two TV shows returning Arthur Conan Doyle's creation to our screens, Sherlock Holmes has never seemed more influential. But for the good of detective fiction, it might be time to look elsewhere for our unorthodox investigators...
Tuesday, August 9 2011
The Noir Clichés and Conventions in ‘Blue Estate 5’
Five issues down and it simply should not be this easy to produce work verging on outright genius. And yet… This issue Kalvachev & co. present the tawdry machinations of "The Money Shot".
Monday, November 16 2009
Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut
Stone's pedigree secure, the Hollywood maverick turned on the system itself; tarring sensationalism, public bloodlust, and judicial entropy, seemingly with the same brush.
Friday, October 31 2008
RocknRolla
Violence is the primary form of communication among all the film's macho posturers.
Monday, March 17 2008
Revolver
Ritchie's understanding of the term "psychological" seems to be rooted in the idea that people, like, have conflicting thoughts, like, inside their head and stuff.
Thursday, October 10 2002
Swept Away (2002)
What Swept Away calls love, I would call the usual terror and degradation that keeps battered women in dangerous relationships.
