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 […]