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Author’s Note: This essay contains minor spoilers for The Man From Nowhere. In The Man From Nowhere, Won Ban plays Cha Tae-sik, a pawnbroker...
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Author’s Note: This essay contains minor spoilers for The Man From Nowhere. In The Man From Nowhere, Won Ban plays Cha Tae-sik, a pawnbroker...
Oldboy is, like Rashomon or The Bicycle Thief is not just a great film, but a film that announced the precision and skill of...
“It gave back the confidence that the Western can be a great movie.” ––Bernardo Bertolucci, on the films of Sergio Leone I spent...
In 1987, an exceptionally dark thriller/horror film called White of the Eye premiered to little fanfare. Although it had some great unconventional actors, excellent...
The Shining has been my favorite horror film since I saw it back in high school. But I only just watched it on a...
So there’s a fan theory floating around the past few years that Indiana Jones “doesn’t matter” to the story of my favorite movie of...
When I see the Ladd Company logo fill the screen, the green flickering lines detailing a tree, some part of my subconscious is delighted....
In genre movies, environment is everything. A common critique of moody, slow-paced sci-fi films is their prioritisation of atmosphere over storytelling, the “style over...
I recently re-watched the Andrew Davis thriller The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford. I have to say it holds up. To say this film had...
Sylvester Stallone’s 1986 cop thriller Cobra begins on a black screen with blood red titles for director George Cosmatos and star Stallone; we hear...
Perhaps one of the most prolific cult directors of all time, Jesús Franco Manera, though often shortened to Jess Franco, is a fascinating filmmaker...
Night Of The Living Dead has long been regarded as a trailblazer in terms of the horror genre but also as an indicator to...
In my previous two columns (Read Part 1 / Read Part 2), I introduced the subgenre of post-apocalyptic action films that pointedly imitated The...
Beyond Fest in Los Angeles launched it’s 2018 film series with a tribute to filmmaker David Cronenberg. In addition to the 13-film retrospective, the...
In my previous column, I introduced the subgenre of post-apocalyptic action films that pointedly imitated The Road Warrior. I listed the first five such...
Imagine you’re a making a movie with a castle, flying vampires, re-animated monsters, special effects, and thousands of extras playing angry townspeople. Sounds great...
Who doesn’t love the post-apocalyptic sci-fi films of the 1980s? If you define the subgenre broadly, you’ll count at least 100 such films. They...
What’s going on, kids? My mind is wiped. Lots of chaos in the news, in the country and in the world amid these Trump...
The year that was 1993 was a monumental year for the movies. This was the year when newfangled digital visual effects were finally good...
The year that was 1993 was a monumental year for the movies. This was the year when newfangled digital visual effects were finally good...
The year that was 1993 was a monumental year for the movies. This was the year when newfangled digital visual effects were finally good...
In our first installment, we introduced blobs and British blob films (three films). Last installment, we listed blob films from the late 1950s into...
Twin Peaks wrapped up this year and, if David Lynch is to be believed, it may be the final chapter not just on Laura...
Over the last 16 years we have seen multiple incarnations of Spider-Man, and despite the many differences between the various series, its success has...