Tim Pelan

Life and Death in a Northern Town: Mike Hodges’ ‘Get Carter’

  By Tim Pelan Soon after its release in 1972, the film was banished to the dark shadows of cult…

4 years ago

Sic Transit Garber’s Subway: ‘The Taking of Pelham One Two Three’

    By Tim Pelan   Only the amazing reaction that that picture has gotten, because at the time I…

4 years ago

Appetite for Destruction: Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’ and the Fall of the House of Woodcock

  By Tim Pelan Not unlike James Cameron and his flop sweat fever dream of a chrome skeleton-framed torso, dragging…

4 years ago

Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire

  By Tim Pelan   This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting…

4 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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,…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago