A Robocop Statue in Detroit: Awesomely Ironic
Last night, Watson completed his route of Jeopardy competitors Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, ushering in our new “computer overlords.” 1 Appropriately enough, this comes…
Beyond The Screen
Cropsey – Urban Legends and Mirrors for Our Motives
What begins as the exploration of an urban legend evolves into a glimpse at how society needs to manufacture visible boogey men to alleviate internal…
The Roommate — A Rant on Plagiarism
Shuffling through the final papers of the semester, I encounter one that discusses Richard Wright’s Lawd Today! and the genius of how Jake’s quotidian routine…
Tron: Legacy — Man and Machine Love Won’t Produce Any Offspring, Will It?
Two of my guilty pleasures are Under Siege and The Rock, which might be the only Nicolas Cage movie that doesn’t make bile creep up…
Chaos Reigns Over Gender Roles in Antichrist
Born to a cacophony of jeers at Cannes, Antichrist blurs the line between the beatific and profane, forcing the audience to witness violence beneath the…
Fatal Attraction – What if Prince Charming Were a Speed Freak and Only Wanted Cinderella to Keep Tabs on the Meth Lab?
“You know when you meet someone for the first time and there’s this instant attraction?” asks Alex Forrest of Dan Gallagher over a drink, echoing…
How Rachel Getting Married, the Movie, Ruined Weddings
My brother married a Canadian woman. They exchanged vows in an Ontario border town situated at the most eastern and most southern point of Lake…
The Greatest Trick Devil Will Pull Is Convincing the World It Wasn’t Written by the Ultimate, Ominous Harbinger of Recent Filmmaking
As a few million of you might know, Inception opened this past weekend to the delight of many and the derision of a few who…
Charting the Career Quality of Directors
This graphical breakdown of career director arcs over on Into the Abyss is pretty damn fantastic. What author Todd Miro did was compile all the…
If It’s Summer, There Must Be a Whole Bunch of Ex-plo-zhe-uns at the Movie Theatre
Homer Simpson is a simple man. He likes enormous portions of everything that he likes. Donuts. Bacon. Beer. And all of the other things that…