A Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month May 16, 2022 Armageddon sees Michael Bay at his most Michael Bay, just before big changes Bay's style reaches an apex in his humanity v. asteroid flick, which changed his reception forever.
I Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 24, 2021 In defense of Coppola’s polarizing take on “Dracula” "Bram Stoker's Dracula" may be comically over the top at times, but everyone involved put 100% heart and energy into it.
I Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies December 18, 2020 Inside the uncomfortably small world of “Panic Room” One of David Fincher's more straightforward suspense thrillers, Panic Room finds that greed always levels the playing ground.
& Categories Movies Reviews November 16, 2020 “Strange Days” says more about 2020 than it did about 1999 Kathryn Bigelow's vision of a grim future was mostly rejected by audiences -- now we're living in it.
& Categories Anniversaries Movies September 22, 2020 “Se7en” can still keep you up at night, even after 25 years David Fincher's bleak, gruesome murder mystery packed a punch audiences have never forgotten.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 28, 2020 “Spider-Man: Far From Home” forces Peter Parker to grow up The latest Marvel film to date is more than a mid-sized follow up to Avengers: Endgame -- it establishes Peter Parker as the beating heart of the new MCU.
O Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies February 15, 2020 One Woman Finds Her Way in a Man’s World in “Married to the Mob” Jonathan Demme directed Michelle Pfeiffer in a winning performance in a feminist take on screwball comedy.
T Categories Columns Features Movies December 18, 2019 The Computerized Humanism of “Avatar”, Ten Years Later We revisit the underappreciated humanism of James Cameron's effects-driven blockbuster a decade after its release.
L Categories Columns Features Movies October 26, 2019 Love and Robots: “The Terminator” is Cameron’s Most Romantic Movie On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the film's release, we look back at James Cameron's most melancholy blockbuster.
D Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies October 24, 2019 Decency is Stifling in “The Age of Innocence” Martin Scorsese's scintillating period romance is a Victorian treatise on the sufficating gulf between desire and decorum.
