Culture Warrior

Culture Warrior: The ‘Limits’ of Directorial Self-Indulgence

Landon takes a look at Jim Jarmusch's new film and other meaningless movies that are meaningless. Read More

Culture Warrior: ‘Obsessed’ and the Canon of the Awesomely Bad

Bad films give audiences a rare type of power, and when films fall flat on their face, the result can… Read More

Culture Warrior: 80s on Film

This week, Landon asks why some recent movies have treated the Reagan era so damn seriously. Read More

Culture Warrior: The Cinematic Endurance Test

This week, Landon looks at Hunger and asks why we watch movies that are hard to watch. Read More

Culture Warrior: The 21st Century Movie Star

For better or for worse, Hollywood works differently now, and a pretty face just doesn’t sell tickets anymore. Read More

Culture Warrior: Bromance and its Predecessors

With this weekend’s release of I Love You, Man, the recent trend of comedies centered on platonic male relationships—the ‘bromance’—is… Read More

Culture Warrior: Watchmen and the Epic Running Time

This week, Landon explores the world of long movies. Really long movies. Read More

Culture Warrior: This Week in Non-Fiction

I’m going to force the interwebs to take a momentary break from continuing to go nuts over Watchmen this weekend… Read More

Culture Warrior: Mickey, Sean, and Paul Haggis Progressivism

First of all I need to preface this post by saying that I don’t believe the Oscars matter in the… Read More