Not Just Movies

If you ask me what my ten favorite films are, chances are 9 of them will change every time I hear the question. But two films have stayed th...

"I saw her standin' on her front lawn just twirlin' her baton Me and her went for a ride sir and ten innocent people died...

As I run down the list of the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? top 1000, I've been surprised to find how much I've loved just ab...

For whatever reason, the Dogme 95 movement has always seemed pretentious to me on paper. Actually, no, I know the reason, it's the ruleb...

You know, as much as I absolutely adored Happy-Go-Lucky , I almost wish I hadn't seen it yet. Going back through the rest of his oeuvre,...

Sometimes I think people overstate Altman's state of affairs in the 80s. First of all, "Popeye" didn't flop, and regardles...

I hereby forgive my film teacher for making me suffer once more through Donnie Darko . The poor man has to show us movies in a room with wir...

The universally accepted wisdom dictates that Buster Keaton is the greatest of the silent comedians, but I've always preferred Chaplin, ...

Akira Kurosawa earned his reputation as the supreme director of action, chiefly within his jidaigeki samurai epics, but he also had a gift ...

In the mid-70s a director named Terrence Malick graduated from the American Film Institutes's conservatory with a master's degree, a...

When legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky saw Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey , he hated it for its cold...

Just how much dramatic irony can you pack into one word? Todd Solondz seems willing to find out with the title of Happiness , a vicious so...

There are plenty of documentaries that capture the end of life, of dreams, of careers; but how many have shown us the end of an era? I'm...

In my ongoing quest to grow the hell up and get over my childish fear of the horror genre-- though I believe most horror filmmakers would be...

In 1969 Sergio Leone released the epic Once Upon a Time in the West , a commentary on his own bloody spaghetti Westerns that examined what b...