Recent Film Columns

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Friday, August 14 2009

“No Dad, What About You?!”: The John Hughes Generation Conflict

By Michael Brett

John Hughes went to bat for us teenagers against the evil Baby Boomer adults and the damage their material expectations inflicted on the classic American nuclear family.

(more The Rockist)

Thursday, August 13 2009

Oceans of Fear

By Chris Justice

Brace yourself: this is a fish tale that can silence – like the great white shark itself – all of its competitors.

(more The Tackle Box)

Thursday, July 30 2009

International d’Horreur

By Marco Lanzagorta

The country that is producing high quality fear flicks these days is not in North America nor anywhere in Asia, but in Western Europe.

(more Dread Reckoning)

Wednesday, July 29 2009

We All End Up in Diapers: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By Jennifer Makowsky

Comparing the book to the film, it’s as if Fitzgerald laid just the foundation, and from that Roth built a multi-storied house.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Friday, July 24 2009

You are Living in the Golden Years of Cinema

By Michael Barrett

Excellent movies are so thick on the ground that we're tripping on them – but never have so many delivered so much to such an ungrateful lot.

(more Canon Fodder)

Thursday, July 16 2009

Let the Kayfabe be Unbroken: My Breakfast with Blassie

By Monte Williams

This movie provokes a guilty-pleasure curiosity, followed by a yearning to somehow feel above the ridiculous performance you’re witnessing.

(more Lowbrow Literati)

Thursday, June 25 2009

Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema

By Thomas Britt

In recent history, the myriad commercial and social reactions to so-called Blaxploitation films made feasible the rise of a robust, intelligent, and independent black cinema in the US.

(more Pop Past)

Thursday, June 18 2009

Ingmar Bergman: No Man is an Island

By Matt Mazur

Bergman’s need to honor, discover and examine his intrinsic connection to women is quite simple: all men are influenced by women.

(more Suffragette City)

Wednesday, May 27 2009

In Treatment: Fantasy Therapy for All

By Meta Wagner

Explorations of the outer limits of the patient/ therapist relationship titillate viewers with the possibilities of what could happen.

(more Vox Pop)

Tuesday, May 26 2009

Let the Right One In, But Only the Right One

By Jennifer Makowsky

Lindqvist’s book and Alfredson’s film adaptation both convey a sweet, dark version of puppy love. We don’t need the American remake.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Friday, May 1 2009

Like Movies—with Buttons

By L.B. Jeffries

Like Edwin S. Porter realizing that a series of shots was how you structured a film, games have to abandon the presumption that they need to obey a linear narrative or controlled message and just let the player loose.

(more Moving Pixels)

Tuesday, April 28 2009

‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’: Check, Please

By Jennifer Makowsky

I hate it when a film takes a brilliant literary work and turns it into what it thinks the literary work should be.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Thursday, April 9 2009

Looking Back at ‘Back to the Future’

By Monte Williams

The most irreverent, knowing, daring and hippest time travel story of all time has, inevitably and fittingly, become a time capsule.

(more Lowbrow Literati)

Tuesday, April 7 2009

Waltzing with Wilco

By Ben Rubenstein

As any experienced concert-goer knows, a lively audience can mean the difference between a lackluster event and a memorable night. Sometimes, it’s more important than the band's actual performance.

(more Mixtape Confessions)

Tuesday, March 31 2009

Chok(ing) Onscreen and In Print

By Jennifer Makowsky

Whether served up on the page or on the screen, this is an intimate assessment of a twisted mother/son relationship with plenty of sardonic humor and scathing satire.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Friday, March 6 2009

‘The City’: The Most Seen Documentary

By Michael Barrett

Steiner and Van Dyke have an eye for beauty even in misery, and their compositions make this part of the movie a pleasure to visit, even if we wouldn't want to live there.

(more Canon Fodder)

Sunday, March 1 2009

Woolf at the Door

By Jennifer Makowsky

Both Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours offer an illuminating look at the choices we make, the roles we play, and the hours that hinge our lives together.

(more The Box Office Belletrist)

Friday, February 20 2009

The Oscar Expert Eyes This Year’s Pageantry

By Matt Mazur

My qualifications for discussing actresses and the Oscars? I’m gay and have watched the awards for more than 25 years now. If that doesn’t make me an Oscar expert, clearly nothing does.

(more Suffragette City)

Thursday, February 19 2009

Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009

By Chris Barsanti

Unlike stiff features like The Reader or even the wildly uneven Curious Case of Benjamin Button, this year's Oscar-nominated shorts program is pretty much a risk-free venture.

(more The Screener)

Wednesday, February 18 2009

By One’s Own Hand, Then

By Marco Lanzagorta

On the one hand society at large relies on moral and theological arguments to ban suicide; on the other our world is plagued with destructive wars and suicidal conflicts.

(more Dread Reckoning)

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