Features
Tuesday, January 13 2009
Celulloid Culpability - Top 10 Film Guilty Pleasures of 2008
Like comedy or music, one's choice in cinematic pleasure can be very personal - and very peculiar. Take this tantalizing list of shameful indulgences. You can argue over their artistic value, but their individuals rewards definitely speak to those who champion them.
Reviews
Monday, August 18 2008
Doomsday
All the satirical/B-movie homage aspects of this movie emerge only in retrospect: not during the actual viewing itself.
Monday, March 17 2008
Doomsday
If there's a single image worth contemplating in Doomsday, it's Eden's strapping lats and shoulders.
Friday, August 4 2006
The Descent (2005)
This second feature by Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers) knows what it's about, both its generic limits and your knowledge of those limits. It doesn't try to trick you, but instead delivers the usual tension-building effects.
Friday, August 4 2006
The Descent (2005)
The crawly cave-beasts keep popping up in sudden soundtrack blasts, but Neil Marshall's half-baked ideas about betrayal and woman's capacity for savagery are simplistic and pretentious.
Blogs
Saturday, July 26 2008
Doomsday: Unrated (2008)
Some films commit the cardinal cinematic sin of being too smart for their own good. They smugly announce their importance, challenging you to hate them…
News
Monday, August 30 2010
Neil Marshall's 'Centurion' takes his feral feminism to Roman Britain
PHILADELPHIA — Writer-director Neil Marshall, whose historical war epic, "Centurion," opened Friday, has done a lot for women. And a lot to them. His breakout…
