Features
Monday, October 13 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 1
Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.
Reviews
Tuesday, July 12 2011
John Carpenter's The Ward
The thinness of The Ward's story provides for some economy, but little mystery or dread.
Monday, April 7 2003
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Carpenter refuses to reduce the violence to a sideshow of blood squibs or special effects pyrotechnics.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Big Trouble in Little China (1986/2001)
Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) is the anti-hunk, the inverse of the pectorally endowed fighting machines typified by Stallone and Schwarzenegger.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
In 'Ghosts of Mars', Desolation is a perfect candidate to ensure the human-humans' survival: not only is he the resilient and brilliant Ice Cube, but he is also the consummate delinquent champion.
Blogs
Thursday, November 11 2010
Watch the Skies!: Top 10 Alien Invasion Films
Ten examples of evil cosmic conquerors and their eventual mash-up with mankind.
