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Wednesday, January 12 2011

The Best Films of 2010

Among this year's winners include a fake documentary, a comedy about Jihad, a vampire story NOT dealing with tacky tween romance, a haunting hillbilly noir, and an elegant tale about clones. Not necessarily the usual cinematic suspects.


Reviews

Monday, February 21 2011

'Let Me In' Is a Refreshingly Bloody Coming of Age Love Story/Revenge Fantasy

Let Me In, the inevitable American remake of the 2008 Swedish vampire arthouse hit Let the Right One In, more than holds its own against the nearly perfect original.


Friday, October 1 2010

'Let Me In': Harder Than You Dare

Let Me In both tweaks and fulfills right-wingy, quasi-religious views by making the most virulent embodiment of evil a little girl.


Monday, April 21 2008

Cloverfield

By being both absolutely verisimilar and absolutely unreal, Cloverfield highlights the extent to which reality is natively constructed.


Friday, January 18 2008

Cloverfield

The focus on delusional heroism may be Cloverfield's most salient trick.


Sunday, January 1 1995

Felicity

Early rumors labeled the show 'Ally McBeal Goes to College', and it's taken two full seasons to grow into the designation.


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.


Thursday, November 11 2010

2010: The Year of the Misunderstood Movie

If it goes down as anything, 2010 will be seen as the year of the misunderstood movie, an artistic anomaly which saw at least four fine films fall by the commercial wayside.


Monday, October 4 2010

Geek Ire, The 'Splice' Effect, and 'Let Me In'

Honest reaction and opinions are almost always the answer to a lack of ticket sales. The sooner the aggregate gets that in its communal noggin and stops trying to dictate universal appeal (or abhorrence), the better.


Wednesday, September 22 2010

Remake... or Redundant?

Call it generational or junk culture, but "why?" will never fully address the thought process behind Hollywood's often craven need for movie makeovers. In the case of this latest revamp, the results speak for themselves.


News

Wednesday, October 1 2008

The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies

Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It's just another night at the movies. The Katrina documentary "Trouble the Water," the viral-outbreak…


Friday, January 18 2008

'Mockumentaries' make the outlandish seem true

In the new movie "Cloverfield" a towering monster runs amok in New York City, knocking over buildings and collapsing bridges. No, it's not a very…


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