Mirrored Movies #2: THE GOOD DINOSAUR and THE REVENANT
There are a lot of films released every year that, despite no apparent connection, often…
Bad Films Shot By Great Cinematographers: MAN OF THE YEAR
(Please note that, due to the paucity of online screenshots for this film, there will…
TRUMBO
As necessary as it is for the realm of criticism, I don’t like writing negative reviews.…
The Year in Review: Revisiting the Late 60s
If, as I wrote in last year’s review, that the early 60s were in vogue…
Bad Films Shot By Great Cinematographers: JERSEY GIRL
Who Shot It: Vilmos Zsigmond. In the 1970s, there was a group of cinematographers who…
20 Years: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
Release Date: January 19, 1996 Genre: Action/Horror/Comedy Director: Robert Rodriguez Writer: Quentin Tarantino Domestic Box Office:…
New Modes for Old Truths: Reflections on MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006)
. . .measuring our exacting times with the few exact terms, holding fast to many…
They’ve got printers in the basement you can use: the enduring uncanniness of After Last Season
I’ve been collecting movies for decades and, like any film nerd, I have some items…
The Alien History of THE MARTIAN – Part 4: SILENT RUNNING
The narrative of Silent Running (1972) is the inverse of The Martian: rather than longing…
Memento Mori: THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN EYES (1971)
The trajectory of Stan Brakhage’s approximately 50-year career moves from films he shot himself with…