Let’s cut to the chase: Is McG to blame for the semi-smoldering wreck that is Terminator Salvation?
Paul Verhoeven found in Gerard Reve’s work a near-perfect mix of the cinematic ideas and images that stimulate him most.
On paper, the film’s only purpose is to resolve the seemingly insurmountable plot element of Spock’s death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
The Bounty delivered everything a great sea story should.
Let’s face it, there’s plenty wrong with the so-called wholesome entertainment of the mid-1980s.
There is something distinctly portentous about seeing a foreigner dressed as a gangster.
Godfrey Cheshire’s film avoids the pitfalls of its most obvious precursor, 1997’s Family Name.
When I began this essay, it was Friday, May 8th, 2009, and Transformers celebrated 25 years of near-continuous presence in various media.
Portrait of an Artist as Rambo: A Conversation with Flooding with Love for the Kid’s Zackary Oberzan
Oberzan discusses his appreciation of action heroes, mind versus body control, Stallone versus Van Damme, and so much more.
Still and all, Preston is in full-on Captain Ahab mode and remains undeterred by the struggle.
Understanding Screenwriting #26: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Angels & Demons, In Plain Sight, & More
Sometimes it’s the writers.
Departures is still just about potent enough to leave us with lingering questions.
Outrage has more to tell us about the screwed-up priorities of closeted gay careerists than even Angels in America.
Throughout Erick Zonca’s Julia, it’s as if criminal pathology were a scale of musical notes and Julia their virtuosic interpreter.
Throughout, it’s hard to know what’s real and what’s not.
The identifying phrase “New Italian cinema” is synonymous with that type of socially realist bildungsroman for adults.
This film and I have a minor history.
Chain reactions are the miniature explosions that drive most of the hard sciences, particularly chemistry.
Herzog’s world is harsh and cruel, dominated by a violent natural order in which humanity’s place is precarious at best.
Like most of the others working on God’s Land, I have a day job that has nothing to do with filmmaking or entertainment.