Damn cellphones!

A few weeks ago, in a post about things I dislike in movies, I mentioned the death of narrative at the hands of modern communications technologies. I just came across this July 28 column by Joe Queenan in the Guardian on-line edition, in which he elaborates on the same issue. I’m glad to know I’m […]

Quality control

Rapidly developing video technologies are altering not just our expectations but also our responses to the experience of watching movies. Blu-ray, hi-def TVs, the digital technologies which are used more and more in production – all have helped to create particular standards which many viewers now apply to virtually everything they watch. A lot of […]

Blasts from the past

B-horror nostalgia: Ryan Schifrin’s Abominable (2005/2018)

Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 – part three

Stanley Kubrick 5A: Science Fiction – 2001: A Space Odyssey

My adventure with Jack Nance on the fringes of Hollywood

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