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 in my life so long,…
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‘JFK’: Oliver Stone’s Emotionally Accurate and Masterfully Crafted Trip Down the Rabbit Hole
By Koraljka Suton “I think I was always controversial, provocative. But I can’t help it. I have to go there. It’s my nature. It’s…
‘Magnolia’: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Absorbing Mosaic of Compassion, Humanity and the Importance of Forgiveness
In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort that dazzled the film loving community. The commercial and…
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Out of Sight’: An Achronological Time-Out from Conventional Crime Narrative
By Tim Pelan Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s crime novel Out of Sight experiments with form, tussles with it even. Opening in…
Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’
By Tim Pelan Many rightly attribute Taxi Driver’s success to screenwriter Paul Schrader, director Martin Scorsese, and method leading man Robert De Niro—together they…
Limitation of Life: You Can’t Go Back in John Frankenheimer’s ‘Seconds’
By Tim Pelan Who we are depends on a multitude of influences, societal and blood-borne. Mankind is the only entity on the planet with…
Spies Like Us: Harry Palmer, the Everyday Hero of ‘The Ipcress File’
By Tim Pelan The Ipcress File, both film adaptation by director Sidney J. Furie and producer Harry Saltzman, and the original debut novel by…
Paul Hirsch on ‘Star Wars’: Thinking We Were Making a Film for Kids, We Made a Film for the Kid in All of Us
An unusually calm, composed and quiet man sits across the table from me and my notebook, patiently awaiting my next question. We’re in Poland: it’s…
‘Jaws’: The Groundbreaking Summer Blockbuster that Changed Hollywood, and Our Summer Vacations, Forever
It seems unbelievable, but it’s been 42 years since Steven Spielberg’s Jaws premiered in cinemas across the United States. Almost half a century since the…
Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’: A Game-Changing Science-Fiction Classic
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner’s path to stardom and cultism has hardly been a bump-free ride. Heavily disputed upon its release, often criticized as an occasionally…