[This is an entry in my Favorite Directors Blogathon .] It can sometimes be difficult to separate out Tony Scott's gifts as a populist f...
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[This is an entry in my Favorite Directors Blogathon .] It can sometimes be difficult to separate out Tony Scott's gifts as a populist f...
At last getting any form of non-festival domestic distribution, Joe Dante's family-oriented (family- friendly may be a stretch) horror ...
[This is my (very belated) August entry in Blind Spots.] Don't Look Now begins with a fade out from rain cascading upon a puddle to shu...
Spike's follow-up to his landmark When the Levees Broke begins as an incisive continuation of his best documentary, but the sheer range...
Joaquin Phoenix's Freddie Quell is a man so wracked by his carnal urges that he walks in convulsive, post-coital spasms and pants in rag...
Of the many pleasures to be found in Dredd , Pete Travis' lean, nasty bottle episode of a film, perhaps the greatest is the lack of cumb...
Ron Fricke's latest tone poem, Samsara , takes its name from a concept shared among Indian religions pertaining to life, death and rebir...
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) Michael Snow' legendary 45-minute structuralist work feels about three times its length, a slow zoom acr...
Restored and reissued by Milestone Film, Ornette: Made in America offers a fascinating visualization of some of the most exciting music of ...
The Resident Evil movies have elevated the "It was all a dream" conceit into the longest-running Simpsons rake gag in cinema. I...
Befitting a movie about a man losing his memory, Frank Langella's character in Robot & Frank is also named Frank to keep things sim...
Wayne White is too fascinating a character for the staid documentary techniques of Beauty Is Embarrassing . In fact, I found myself wishing ...
For Spectrum Culture's Re-Make/Re-Model series, I have tried to discuss remakes with artistic credibility in their own right, to show th...
So much of Prince's eponymous sophomore effort can be summarized by its hysterical cover. Where For You functioned as primarily a disco...
If there is any justice in this world, John Hyams will not have to suffer in his direct-to-DVD or VOD-first-release purgatory for much longe...
John Hyams' Universal Soldier: Regeneration , the third official installment of the Universal Soldier series and fifth overall, was rel...
I have not seen Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke in five years, and in that time I had not only forgotten what a superb documentary it...
David Koepp's Premium Rush feels like the first posthumous tribute to the work of the late Tony Scott. Unintentional, of course, but be...