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…
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‘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…
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…
The Risk Always Lives: Words to Live by On the Set of James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’
By Tim Pelan “My mommy always said there were no monsters—no real ones—but there are,” Carrie Henn’s hardened child…
Once Upon a Time… In the Philippines: Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ Is a Three-Time Prime Cut of Film-Making Largesse
By Tim Pelan According to its director Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now was “a Los Angeles dream of war.”…
Moonbase Alpha, Moonbase Beta: Sam Rockwell Is the Secret VFX at the Heart of Duncan Jones’ ‘Moon’
By Tim Pelan Ten years ago Duncan Jones’ Moon (2009) became the little science fiction film that could, an…
A Carpenter of Death and His Four Horsemen: Samuel Fuller’s ‘The Big Red One’
By Tim Pelan In Hollywood, personal films can often become bloated vanity projects. With Samuel Fuller’s semi-autobiographical WWII memoir,…
We Blew It? Douglas Trumbull’s ‘Silent Running’ Took the Counter-Culture Legacy of ‘Easy Rider’ As a Paean to the Planet
By Tim Pelan On this first day of a new century we humbly beg forgiveness and dedicate these last…
Rev, Rev, Against the Dying of the Light: The Fading Feudal Code of John Frankenheimer’s ‘Ronin’
By Tim Pelan I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, burned a lot of bridges, and reached…
Play for Play: How The Color of Money’s ‘One For Them’ Assignment Reignited Martin Scorsese’s Hunger for the Work
By Tim Pelan After ‘The Last Temptation’ was cancelled in ’83, I had to get myself back in shape….