Approaching Menace: The American Pathology of Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’
By Tim Pelan Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s…
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‘Psycho’: The Proto-Slasher that Brought On a Revolution in Cinema
By Sven Mikulec The image of a shabby motel in the middle of nowhere, by-passed by any relevant roads…
‘Heat’: Michael Mann’s Meticulous Masterpiece of Both Style and Substance That Transcends Genre
By Koraljka Suton A guy told me one time, “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not…
With ‘Barry Lyndon,’ Stanley Kubrick’s Painterly Eye Invites Us to Be All-seeing, but Ultimately, Unknowing
By Tim Pelan I have had a complete set of Thackeray sitting on my bookshelf at home for years,…
‘Magnolia’: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Absorbing Mosaic of Compassion, Humanity and the Importance of Forgiveness
By Sven Mikulec In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ As a Testament to and an Exploration of Scorsese’s Own Faith
By Koraljka Suton Ever since he was a little boy, director Martin Scorsese wanted to make a movie about…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…