https://cinephiliabeyond.org Films and Filmmaking Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:00:18 +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/terminator2/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/terminator2/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:32:34 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=42797 Terminator 2: Judgment Day poster art by Tony Stella, https://www.tony-stella.com/   By Tim Pelan   I’m not playing it safe […]

The post New Model Arnie: How James Cameron’s ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ Held True to Its Exploitation Roots Whilst Remodelling the Action Blockbuster Template appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/terminator2/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-miller/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-miller/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:16:41 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=39576   By Koraljka Suton   The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of […]

The post How Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/mccabe-mrs-miller/feed/ 2 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-wild-bunch/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-wild-bunch/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:49:34 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=40589 The Wild Bunch poster art by Tony Stella   By Tim Pelan   We wanted to show violence in real […]

The post “It Ain’t Like It Used to Be. But It’ll Do:” How Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ Became Both a Eulogy for a Mythic Past and a Template for a New Kind of Action appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/the-wild-bunch/feed/ 0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/parallax-view-pakulas-unsettling-examination-post-compliant-america/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/parallax-view-pakulas-unsettling-examination-post-compliant-america/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:11:34 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=23429 The Parallax View poster art by Callum Mullin   By Sven Mikulec   The seventies were a unique period in […]

The post ‘The Parallax View’ at 52: Pakula’s Unsettling Examination of the Post-Compliant America appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/parallax-view-pakulas-unsettling-examination-post-compliant-america/feed/ 1 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/psycho-proto-slasher-brought-revolution-cinema/ https://cinephiliabeyond.org/psycho-proto-slasher-brought-revolution-cinema/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:09:45 +0000 http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=23887   By Sven Mikulec   The image of a shabby motel in the middle of nowhere, by-passed by any relevant […]

The post ‘Psycho’ at 66: The Proto-Slasher that Brought On a Revolution in Cinema appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.]]> https://cinephiliabeyond.org/psycho-proto-slasher-brought-revolution-cinema/feed/ 2 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