The end of the golden age of cinema due to the rise in the popularity of television brought about many changes in cinema, most notably to the field of animation. As distribution and presentation formats [click for more]
Comic book adaptations have never been considered art. A majority of them have been rather bad, where filmmakers seem to think that the phrase “comic book” is a cover-all excuse to throw story logic and [click for more]
Sequels are tricky things. They must deliver the same thrills that thrilled movie audiences the first time around while still serving up new twists and surprises that won’t alienate fans. Unfortunately, most sequels don’t live [click for more]
In a cinema landscape overrun with in your face comedies like Adam Sandler’s Anger Management, the latest mockumentary from Christopher Guest, A Mighty Wind, is, if you’ll excuse the obvious metaphor here, a breath of [click for more]
It’s a common enough formula for a suspense movie. Isolate a group of characters that are strangers to each other in a desolate location and then start killing them off. As the body count and [click for more]
Raymond Chandler had an axiom when he was writing his hard-boiled detective novels- “When in doubt, have a man with a gun come through the door.” This must be the only writing advice ever given [click for more]
The Magdalene Sisters is a film that should and very likely will infuriate its audiences. Some will be outraged at what they may perceive as an attack on Catholic Church authority. Others will be aghast [click for more]
Journeys to the center of the Earth have been a staple of fantasy literature since Dante visited the Inferno and Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole. Unfortunately modern science has replaced the imaginative worlds of [click for more]
One thing that makes for potent drama or comedy is the clash of cultures, how one group of people reacts to ways different from their own. At the surface, that’s what the British dramedy Bend [click for more]
In Being John Malkovich, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze took their audience literally inside the mind of a great Hollywood actor. With their new collaboration Adaptation, the pair now take us inside the [click for more]
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