Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking

By PopMatters Staff

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. [19 June 2007]

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

By Bill Gibron

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. [29 May 2007]

Guerrilla Patton

By Chris Barsanti

Soderbergh's supersized retelling of the Che Guevara legend is an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed. [8 January 2009]

(more The Screener)

The Demise of Horror Culture?

By Marco Lanzagorta

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. [13 May 2008]

(more Dread Reckoning)

The Boys from Brazil

By George Tiller

The most intelligent popular work about cloning and human identity in decades. [21 May 2009]

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. [1 January 1995]