Features
Wednesday, March 26 2008
The Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machine
The Die Hard series is a true rollercoaster of visual excesses guaranteed to raise the viewer’s adrenaline levels – while invoking intriguing ideological and cultural subtexts that deal with race, gender, masculinity, and social anxieties.
Reviews
Thursday, August 27 2009
Cutthroat Island
Here is a movie that bankrupted a studio; killed, wounded, or paralyzed a lot of careers; and left the pirate movie subgenre for dead
Monday, June 2 2008
Cleaner
Director Harlin's cinematic GPA constantly dips over and under the line between B-movie bliss and C-movie oblivion.
Thursday, September 29 2005
Mindhunters (2004)
While the accumulating bodies and declarations of motive are unclever, Mindhunters does make good (if not quite enough) use of LL Cool J.
Friday, May 13 2005
Mindhunters (2005)
In Mindhunters, the relationship between realness and not is especially fraught.
Blogs
Saturday, July 4 2009
12 Rounds - Extreme Cut (2009): Blu-ray
What, exactly, happened to Renny Harlin? How did he go from hotshot newbie with an entire career before him to a cinematic afterthought left to…
