Features
Friday, February 1 2013
The Best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2012
From classics to contemporary television, the typical titles and the surprising outsider choices, the year in home video was just as divisive, and delightful, as the rest of our meaningful media.
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.
Columns
Wednesday, November 21 2012
Building the Perfect Star Beast: The Antecedents of 'Alien'
The impact of Alien is undeniable, and with Prometheus breathing new, terrifying and artistic life into the saga, Alien's legacy could go anywhere. However, Alien didn't spring, fully-formed onto movie screens as the near-perfect Star Beast that it is.
Reviews
Tuesday, November 13 2012
'They Live' Is the Most Blunt Critique of Unfettered Capitalism Ever Committed to Celluloid
They Live is like The Matrix, without the billion dollar ballet routines.
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.
News
Wednesday, October 24 2012
‘Halloween’ Slashes Again in Theaters
LOS ANGELES — Michael Myers, the masked silent Shape that emerged from the shadows of Haddonfield, Ill., to stalk generations of moviegoers, will return to…
