60 years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Oliver Stone’s JFK captures how essential conspiracy is to modern life,
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In Nosferatu, the corrupting power of the vampire is linked to that most symbolically potent infectious disease, the Black Death.
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Birdman of Alcatraz captures Burt Lancaster’s unique capacity to play both hard and soft in the same moment.
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A discussion of how Ridley Scott's 1979 film uses science fiction to merge two kinds of horror to unsettle and disturb.
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The classic Hollywood musical captures the charm of the Golden Age of Cinema.
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In his silent masterpieces, F.W. Murnau invented a new visual vocabulary for cinema.
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Aren discusses the impact of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner and its new designation as the best Canadian film ever made.
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Rawness is just a convention.
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Revisiting some of the themes and questions posed in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner
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Exploring the ways Alfred Hitchcock makes the audience root for Norman Bates in Psycho.
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This great satire is as relevant as ever!
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Long live the King!
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In anticipation of Super 8, Anton contemplates a Spielberg classic.
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Is the label "epic" a valuable or meaningful label for a film at all?
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I once told a friend I thought 2001 was boring, but that I liked that about it.
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Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo gave birth to a whole new kind of cinema.
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