Che

Like Steven Spielberg's A.I. , Steven Soderbergh's Che is defined by dichotomies. The former split along the lines of the deceptive...

Sin City

Upon the release of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs , Pauline Kael dubbed it "the first American film that is a fascist piece of art....

The Greatest Show Ever Made

In the current miasma of television programming, wherein high-quality programs often gasp for fresh air while reality shows and competition ...

Carpenter's Tools: Prince of Darkness

As I work through John Carpenter's corpus, I find myself so taken with his sparse yet impeccable style that I tend to gawk over the deta...

Second Thoughts: Public Enemies

[Edited: 7/21/2012] The majority of mainstream critical opinion largely matched my initial reaction to Michael Mann's Public Enemies --...

Carpenter's Tools: Big Trouble in Little China

By the time John Carpenter made Big Trouble in Little China , the most successful independent filmmaker of all time had since acclimated int...

The Sopranos — Season 3

When last I left New Jersey and the DiMeo crime family, Tony Soprano had once again ordered a significant whacking to save his skin and cons...

The Godfather Part II

If The Godfather served as a haunting eulogy for the American nuclear family, its sequel charted the death of the American Dream, ironicall...

The Outlaw Josey Wales

[This post submitted for the Large Association of Movie Blogs' Clint Eastwood Blog-a-thon. More info can be found here ] The Outlaw Jose...