The Pull of Gravity
It is inevitable. What goes up must come down. That is the effect of Gravity, the new film from Alfonso Cuarón—director of the stunning Children of Men—starring America’s sweethearts Sandra Bullock, George […]
It is inevitable. What goes up must come down. That is the effect of Gravity, the new film from Alfonso Cuarón—director of the stunning Children of Men—starring America’s sweethearts Sandra Bullock, George […]
And so here you find me, scouring the internet, looking for a copy of the generally unavailable 1950 film noir, Shakedown. The Supreme Being saw it at a Noir City screening […]
It’s not often I go around seeing, let alone enjoying, films directed by Ron Howard, but what do you know, Rush is a mostly enjoyable movie, stylish and well-made.
If you’re one of the few culturally closeted peopled left in the world who doesn’t know that Soylent Green might contain other ingredients aside from high-energy oceanic plankton, you might […]
You think teenagers are trouble today, you should have seen them in 1955, back when they were invented.
I lost track of how many times I cried watching Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12. I’d heard good things—it won both the Grand Jury Narrative Feature Award and the Narrative Audience […]
Last night’s viewing: The Great Escape. John Sturges’ three-hour adventure film is a fondly-recalled boyhood favorite and true story of Nazi-needling bravura. Like Sturges’ other earlier blockbuster, The Magnificent Seven, this is a […]
Scanners (’81) is a very strange movie. It’s renowned for a scene—originally supposed to open the film—wherein Michael Ironside, as the evil scanner Darryl Revok, sits on a panel before […]
Have you seen The Ring (Ringu)? If so, then you shall surely die in a week, unless you force someone else to suffer through this bizarre series of disquieting images […]
Nixon and Watergate. Best political scandal ever? It’s the gift that keeps on giving, to the point where every scandal since has had “gate” stuck on the end of it, […]
The summer movie season was littered with bombs, flops, and misfires. More mega-budget movies were released than in any previous summer season, thus over-crowding the marketplace, resulting in dud after […]
You know what can be really frightening? No. Don’t guess. It’s a trick question. That’s because once you know the answer, it’s no longer frightening; it’s just your face in […]
Why not watch Watership Down, I thought? I hadn’t seen it since I was a wee little kid, and I recalled it being weird and dark and very unusual for […]
Sometimes a movie begins, and within ten seconds you hate it, and try as you might to step back, to go with the flow, to give it another chance, nothing […]