“I’ll Be Bond”: Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron’s Everything or Nothing Shot at the James Bond Title
By Tim Pelan James Cameron’s spy thriller/comedy True Lies (1994) came along at a time when the James Bond…
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How ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ Became Sergio Leone’s Butchered Swan Song
By Koraljka Suton The great Italian director Sergio Leone established himself as the inventor of the spaghetti Western genre…
Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: The Unrelenting Male Gaze that Blurs the Lines Between Possession and Obsession
By Koraljka Suton It is no secret that the late Alfred Hitchcock was—and still is—not only one of the…
‘Point Blank’: John Boorman’s Amalgamation of American, British and French Filmmaking Styles
By Koraljka Suton British filmmaker John Boorman started out by making documentaries for the BBC before getting a chance…
Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire
By Tim Pelan Casino in some respects is director Martin Scorsese dialing Goodfellas up to 11. Oh, you want…
Cleansing of the Soul for a Clean Slate: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’
By Sven Mikulec Three decades ago, the now-renowned Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was at the beginning of his…
How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine
By Koraljka Suton The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a…
‘Miller’s Crossing’: A Lamentation of Losers by the Coen Brothers
By Tim Pelan After the success of Raising Arizona, Joel and Ethan Coen were given the chance to do…
‘The Conversation’: Francis Ford Coppola’s Paranoia-Ridden Tale of Surveillance, Guilt and Isolation
By Koraljka Suton Between his masterpiece The Godfather (1972) and its 1974 sequel, esteemed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola decided…
Run Through the Jungian: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’, a Phenomenological Treatise on War
By Tim Pelan “It’s not pro-war or anti-war. It’s just the way things are,” Stanley Kubrick said of Full…