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"Django Unchained" embraces the spaghetti western aesthetic, but this time around Quentin Tarantino has more in mind than just exploitation.
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Affliction (Dir. Paul Schrader, 1997): “To the audience of a tragedy, the catastrophe will seem, finally, to be inevitable.” So says the Brooklyn College English department, and you better believe…
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Woman of Straw (1964, Dir. Basil Dearden): If you’ve seen The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets, or the original Ladykillers, you’re familiar with (and hopefully appreciate) the genteel…
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Haywire (2012, Dir. Steven Soderbergh): It’s not often that you get a simple either-or proposition when it comes to enjoying a movie, so ready yourself: whether or not you like…
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Lincoln (2012, Dir. Steven Spielberg): If it can be said that Steven Spielberg was fated to direct Schindler’s List, then it can also be said that he was meant to…
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Skyfall (2012, Dir. Sam Mendes): “Don’t cock it up.” These are the words spoken by a bureaucratic apparatchik to James Bond in Skyfall, and they’re the words on our minds…
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Dir. Christopher Nolan): It’s been a dozen years since Memento, the shoestring-budget thriller that made a name for Christopher Nolan, and it’s been nearly that…
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Prometheus (2012, Dir. Ridley Scott): If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, then the opening images of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus are a yellow brick highway: majestic vistas of…
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The Avengers (2012, Dir. Joss Whedon): As summer blockbuster season more and more comes to resemble a mass assembly line of prefab parts and decision-by-committee styling, The Avengers stands out…
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“I Am a Ghost” (2012, Dir. H.P. Mendoza): According to H.P. Mendoza, it all started with a second viewing of The Sixth Sense, and the twinge of disappointment he felt at…
