Features
Tuesday, June 19 2007
Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking
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.
Tuesday, May 29 2007
Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction
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.
Columns
Friday, January 9 2009
Guerrilla Patton
Soderbergh's supersized retelling of the Che Guevara legend is an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed.
Tuesday, May 13 2008
The Demise of Horror Culture?
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.
Reviews
Thursday, July 21 2011
Late '60s Pop Is Half Groovy, Half Gloomy In 'The Double Man' and 'Assignment to Kill'
After James Bond's sex and sadism and the cold war films that followed, spy movies tried to negotiate a "third way", a path between savoir faire glamour and tragic realism.
Friday, May 22 2009
The Boys from Brazil
The most intelligent popular work about cloning and human identity in decades.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Planet of the Apes (2001)
...reminds us that we may not be the end product of some divine plan, or necessarily very important to the universe.
