Amores Perros: Moments of Weightlessness
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film Amores Perros (2000) is a prime example of what Alissa Quart coined “Hyperlink Cinema” (Quart 1). Essentially, a term that refers to […]
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Q&A with Ang Lee and Suraj Sharma
Having heard horror stories about the “Meet the Filmmaker” event with Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman that led to queues, commotion and hours of waiting, […]
A Riddle in Temporality: Hollis Frampton’s Nostalgia
Hollis Frampton’s black and white 16mm film, Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971), takes us on a journey through moving and still image and memory and anticipation: […]
The Walking Dead Third Season, Episode Four “Killer Within”
NOTE: This article contains spoilers. If you aren’t caught up, don’t read this! One of the Lost writers’ great crimes was to pepper their story full […]
The Walking Dead Game, Episodes 1-3
The third season premiere episode of The Walking Dead was harrowing, gory, and desperate, but lacked the sheer terror of last season’s that made my […]
Lawless: Brothers, bootlegging, bravado and brutality
The roaring twenties and Prohibition era has long been a focus for cinematic and television outings. With the success of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and a […]
Game of Thrones Article: A Master Class in Adaptations.
Game of Thrones: A Master Class in Adaptations. By Amy Reith Film and television adaptations of well-loved novels are notoriously difficult. For every Lord of […]
Review of Total Recall: Total Rekall or Replay
With the number of remakes Hollywood has been churning out over the past decade, I don’t think anyone was particularly surprised when they announced that […]
El Norte and Sin Nombre. Dangerous Journeys: Disassembling the Beast
Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre (2009) and Gregory Nava’s El Norte (1983) show us the neo-realistic journeys immigrants from Central America and Mexico face on their expedition north to the […]