Year of the Month: James Williams on THE FISHER KING
Confronted with writing about a movie like Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, I become painfully…
Film on the Internet: Patrick Llaguno on CUTTER’S WAY
Have you ever seen that film where Jeff Bridges plays a charming, easygoing layabout who…
Life Before STAR WARS: Aliens, Apes, and Animated Weirdoes
Before Star Wars proved they could be big business, sci-fi and fantasy were the province…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on STARMAN
Ever since I rewatched The Thing last year, I’ve been on a Carpenter kick, as…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT
Before his career became defined by the twin pillars of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s…
Year of the Month: CRAZY HEART and Walking Hard
To properly contextualize Crazy Heart, we have to go back two years. In 2007, Walk…
Year of the Month: Winter Kills
“…inspired by seventies thrillers!” — ad/review copy for Captain America: The Winter Soldier So what…
Year Of The Month: Iron Man
“Well then, this is a very important week for you.” “This is the Funvee. The…
Film on the Internet: WILD BILL (1995) on Amazon Prime
“Bastard deserved what he got, and that ain’t the way it happened.” In the same…
HELL OR HIGH WATER Is Both a History and Acting Lesson
Many films promise to give us a picture of How We Are Living Now, but…