Year of the Month: Jacob Klemmer on the Postmodernism of SHREK 2
If you judge a sequel purely on how much it improves on the original, then…
SPIDER-MAN 2: In Praise of Tobey Maguire’s Dumb Face by Jacob Klemmer
Tobey Maguire is the most courageous actor ever to play a superhero, because he is…
Year of the Month: Three Ways of Looking at THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE
As a Set of Dichotomies, a Way to Break Expectations, and a Personal Audience Identification…
The New Taiwan Blues: Jacob Klemmer on Yi Yi
It’s common to read a director’s final film as a grand culmination and summation of…
The Real and the Hyperreal: Jacob Klemmer on Afterschool (Year of the Month)
Afterschool is about the shape of things to come: starring 15-year-old Ezra Miller, directed by…