The recent release of the West Memphis Three is a fitting excuse, if one is actually needed, to return to (or watch for the first time), the classic Hollywood Western, The Ox-Bow Incident. The film’s plot would no doubt seem more ludicrous were in not for real-life cases like the one mentioned above or the [...]
In The Magicians, Lev Grossman asks what if our favorite fantasies and fairy tales were real? Not only real, but calling out to us in some strange way to be a part of them. This is exactly what happens in the novel when Quentin Coldwater stumbles into a parallel world of magic and multiple universes. [...]
Richard Lindsay reviews the latest summer blockbuster, Cowboys and Aliens. More after the jump.
Looking to Hollywood for marriage or relationship advice is about as foolish a task as you could possibly undertake. On the other hand, Hollywood productions often provide interesting avenues through which to check the pop cultural pulse on both. Similar films like No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits take one approach to which many [...]
Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has described the horror film genre as “one of the last of the brave genres of film.” Unfortunately, many critics and audiences reject the genre out of hand, while the growing collection of film and religion scholars have failed to give it it’s due…aside from films like The Exorcist (1973), Rosemary’s [...]
