House

From the opening title card, featuring the "O" in the film's title turning into a cartoon mouth with pointy teeth, House more...

Welcome Back, Conan

Compared to the exuberant, triumphant opening video of his first Tonight Show , in which he took the reins of a franchise with such joy that...

Plastic Bag

How I have managed to elude Ramin Bahrani's short film Plastic Bag for months baffles me. Bahrani, the greatest newcomer to American ci...

Alien3

Though it is rightly regarded as one of the most intriguing franchises in motion picture history, the Alien saga can also be viewed as a mi...

Wild Grass

As silly as it is to look for trends in the cinema, sometimes they're just so esoteric that they're too fun not to share. If 2010 ha...

Seven Samurai

When I graduated high school, I naturally received congratulatory checks from friends and family, Baby's First Nest Egg to ease the tran...

Pavement — Slanted and Enchanted

No songwriter better exemplifies that old maxim our mothers used to tell us, "It's not what you said but how you said it" lik...