Music is one of the most maleable cultural artifacts. Novels can rely on too many specific elements and contexts, on top of require quite a bit of time and atte...
Given the amount of secrecy surrounding the plot of Upstream Color, it is easy to imagine that a wide sampling of its perspective audience may be put off by...
There is a fine line between a movie that refuses to hold your hand and a movie that just plain doesn't know how to pace or structure itself. A film that metes ...
The Bay is the kind of film that hits and misses with such force and rapidity that your feelings on it may change from moment to moment, dissolving any hope of ...
It is easy to dismiss a movie like Premium Rush sight unseen. The trailer involves a lot of philosophizing about the virtues of the fixed-gear bike cut with som...
Man is a creature. In our rush to congratulate ourselves on a mastery of our world through various technological achievements, we seem to forget this -- every d...
It seems odd that there should be anything left to be said in a movie about cops. It seems as though the cinematic landscape has been saturated by police office...
The subject of one's first love is a tricky thing to capture on film. There's a mystical tint to the days, months, or even years that one spends ensconced in th...
The term "genre mashup" conjures an image of two complete narratives being tossed into a crucible and smashed until they no longer resemble one another, their e...
Remember Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief? It was the movie about the kid who turns out to be a demigod, and has to do some Hero's Journey...
