Culture Warrior: 3D Stops Being a Gimmick in Herzog’s Cinematic Caves
I am not a fan of 3D. Even in the most technologically adept cases where the 3D landscape has layers… Read More
April 26, 2011
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Culture Warrior: On Cinema and Ideology
Ideology is inescapable from cinema. I’ve yet to encounter the situation in which Paul Narboni and Jean-Luc Comolli’s thesis from… Read More
April 19, 2011
Culture Warrior: 3 Rules of Child Assassin Movies
This editorial features some spoilers for Hanna and Kick-Ass. Consider yourself warned.In preparation for this post I ran a quick Internet… Read More
April 12, 2011
Culture Warrior: ‘Source Code’ vs ‘Moon’ and the Structures of Everyday Life
This editorial contains spoilers for Source Code and Moon. If you haven’t seen the movies yet, go check it out… Read More
April 4, 2011
Culture Warrior: ‘Armageddon’ as Cinematic Orgasm
A little more than 100 years ago, cinema was a deceivingly simple spectacle. Late 19th-century vaudeville audiences would attend variety… Read More
April 1, 2011
Culture Warrior: ‘Taxi Driver’ at 35
You hear the phrase “This movie could never be made today” quite often, and it’s typically a thinly veiled means… Read More
March 29, 2011
Culture Warrior: Can Cinema Ever Be Spontaneous?
Acts of spontaneity have been an essential component of artistic expression in the twentieth century, based in the notion of… Read More
March 22, 2011
Culture Warrior: Breaking the Movie Mold
A very strange thing happened at this year’s Golden Globes ceremony. Somewhere between Ricky Gervais’ biting monologue/critique and Robert De… Read More
March 15, 2011
Culture Warrior: Why Studios Need to Fail
Somewhere hidden away in the mid-1990s, there’s a young man reading a “Star Log” in his bedroom foaming at the… Read More
March 8, 2011