Fixed Images of Eternity: Time, Perception, & Grief in ‘Don’t Look Now’
By Jasun Horsley The speaker is Death: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market…
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How Francis Ford Coppola Breathed New Life into ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’
By Koraljka Suton It could be deemed rather poetic that the origins of two of the most iconic and…
“We Translate Every Experience into the Same Old Codes”: In Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘The Passenger,’ Jack Nicholson Attempts a Transference of Self
By Tim Pelan Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film The Passenger is a languid thriller in which not much seems to…
‘The Past, Present and Future of Humanity’: John Boorman’s ‘Excalibur’
By Tim Pelan John Boorman’s 1981 fantastical retelling of Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is, to quote Nicol Williamson’s…
‘Sunset Boulevard’: Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett’s Sobering Exposure of the Dark Side of Hollywood
You will not find in my pictures any phony camera moves or fancy setups to prove that I am…
‘Batman’ (1989): How Tim Burton’s Version of the Caped Crusader Put the Dark in Dark Knight and Gave Wings to the Superhero Movie Genre
By Koraljka Suton Exactly 30 years ago, in the summer of 1989, the world was swept off its feet…
‘And the Sea Will Grant Each Man New Hope, As Sleep Brings Dreams of Home’: John McTiernan’s ‘The Hunt for Red October’
By Tim Pelan There is a long and noble history in Hollywood of submarine war films. The two most…
From Facebook to ‘Fuck-You Flip-Flops’: How Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher Made ‘The Social Network’ a Fiery Word-Off
By Adam Buffery I’ve been Mark Zuckerberg—there are times in my life where I’ve acted that way. There are…
‘DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A SICK MAN TO YOU?’: The Horror of Identity and the Identity of Horror in David Cronenberg’s ‘The Fly’
By Travis Woods TELEPOD 1: STATHIS He watches Her, trembling and nerve-twitched, eyes darting, lips pulled back over protruding…
40 Years of Hurt, Face-Hugging Dreams of Breathing: Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’
By Tim Pelan Ripley’s words to the Xenomorph in Alien 3 sum up how we all feel: “You’ve been…