https://cinephiliabeyond.org Films and Filmmaking Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:54:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-007_w-1-32x32.jpg https://cinephiliabeyond.org 32 32 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/predator-john-mctiernans-first-studio-gig-became-epic-action-classic/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/predator-john-mctiernans-first-studio-gig-became-epic-action-classic/#respond Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:37:45 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=30945   By Sven Mikulec   After Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky IV proved to be a huge box office hit back in […]

The post ‘Predator’ at 39: John McTiernan’s First Studio Gig that Became an Epic Action Classic appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/predator-john-mctiernans-first-studio-gig-became-epic-action-classic/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/truman-show-weir-niccols-uplifting-yet-prophetically-disturbing-dystopian-satire/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/truman-show-weir-niccols-uplifting-yet-prophetically-disturbing-dystopian-satire/#respond Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:26:57 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=22400   By Sven Mikulec   Peter Weir’s The Truman Show, the dystopian satire from 1998 written by Andrew Niccol, remains […]

The post ‘The Truman Show’ at 28: Weir and Niccol’s Uplifting Yet Prophetically Disturbing Dystopian Satire appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/truman-show-weir-niccols-uplifting-yet-prophetically-disturbing-dystopian-satire/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/total-recall/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/total-recall/#respond Sun, 31 May 2026 12:25:27 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=51201 Total Recall poster by Kyle Lambert   By Tim Pelan   I made the movie in a way that it […]

The post We Can Mis-Remember it 80s-Style: ‘Total Recall’ Was the Last Gasp 80s Ultraviolent Action Extravaganza for a New Decade appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/total-recall/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mission-impossible/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mission-impossible/#respond Fri, 22 May 2026 12:54:53 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=51903 Mission: Impossible poster art by Radostina/CinemaCity00   By Tim Pelan   In my mid-50s, doing ‘Carlito’s Way’ and then ‘Mission: […]

The post NOC NOC: How ‘Mission: Impossible’ Lit the Fuse of Action Stardom Within Tom Cruise appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mission-impossible/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/stalker/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/stalker/#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 12:21:30 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=42489   By Koraljka Suton   ‘Stalker’ is not a desperate film. I don’t think a work of art can be […]

The post ‘Stalker’: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Merger of Contemplative Style and Transcendental Substance Designed to Put Us in the Zone appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/stalker/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/vertigo/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/vertigo/#comments Sat, 09 May 2026 12:36:58 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39930   By Koraljka Suton   It is no secret that the late Alfred Hitchcock was—and still is—not only one of […]

The post Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: The Unrelenting Male Gaze that Blurs the Lines Between Possession and Obsession appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/vertigo/feed/ 4 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/man-on-fire/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/man-on-fire/#respond Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:03:27 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=51690   By Tim Pelan   “The kidnapping I didn’t want to make feel like a normal shootout. Right now, it […]

The post The Sheep That Got Found: ‘Man on Fire’ appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/man-on-fire/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/devils-backbone/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/devils-backbone/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:12:32 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39694   By Sven Mikulec   Three decades ago, the now-renowned Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was at the beginning of […]

The post Cleansing of the Soul for a Clean Slate: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ at 25 appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/devils-backbone/feed/ 2 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/excalibur/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/excalibur/#respond Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:00:53 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=37566   By Tim Pelan   John Boorman’s 1981 fantastical retelling of Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur is, to quote Nicol […]

The post ‘The Past, Present and Future of Humanity’: John Boorman’s ‘Excalibur’ at 45 appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/excalibur/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/12-angry-men-everlasting-testament-sidney-lumet-reginald-roses-filmmaking-prowess/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/12-angry-men-everlasting-testament-sidney-lumet-reginald-roses-filmmaking-prowess/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:09:18 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=31767   By Sven Mikulec   When esteemed actor Henry Fonda saw a successful teleplay called 12 Angry Men written for […]

The post ‘12 Angry Men’ at 69: The Everlasting Testament to Sidney Lumet and Reginald Rose’s Filmmaking Prowess appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/12-angry-men-everlasting-testament-sidney-lumet-reginald-roses-filmmaking-prowess/feed/ 1