Straw Dogs is about man’s quest to identify himself as masculine through the self-actualizing power of violence.
Art is always informed by life, but one doesn’t automatically predict the other.
The House Next Door will not publish any more stand-alone links to the Spielberg series.
I see now why lists can sometimes cause such headaches.
This one’s not just about cameos, but more specifically, cameos that add an intangible but palpable something to the films they grace.
Dread pervades Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the series’s most propulsive and altogether satisfying installment.
I’m partial to scores, but for purposes of discussion, I consider songs to be movie music.
When did Everyman become Superman?
La Jetée is a pretext for Marker to examine the impermanence of experience.
What the hell did people expect from David Chase? Closure? Satisfaction? Answers? A moral?
David Chase is the king of the double-reversal.
The Sopranos is not, and never has been, an either-or kind of show.
Jarhead is fundamentally unsatisfying, but it’s hard to imagine how it could be anything else.
Sam Mendes is a magnet for player haters.
The Sopranos is set in a universe where good and evil have renamed themselves principle and instinct.
Written and directed by Terence Winter, “Walk Like a Man” came close to being all things to all Sopranos viewers.
That Spider-Man 3 is a morality play won’t surprise anybody who saw the first two movies.
This is what Tony Soprano talks about when he talks about happiness.
On paper, The Mormons sounds about as thrilling as mandatory Bible-study class.
Nobody on the series seems to have a conception of life outside of his or her own head.