"Anyone who kills receives in his body, without wanting or knowing it, the soul of his victim." Eduardo Galeano, Genesis
"There would be no eulogies for Bob, no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him, no children named after him, no one would ever pay twenty-five cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in.…
Happy Halloween everyone. Mwahahaha!
In 1979 and 1982, two horror films came out that would come to define the modern monster film as we know it. The first one is Ridley Scott's original Alien, a claustrophobic, tense, and anxious film that combined science fiction and horror in a way that hadn't been seen before. But in 1982, John Carpenter decided to take a crack at remaking one of his favorite movies from when he was a child: The Thing From…
The old saying goes that the people who often write the stories that people consider to be new and fresh often end up being the most predictable stories of them all. It still mystifies me how this film became such a pop culture icon while films that explored similar ideas (and did them better) like They Live, Ghost in The Shell, and The Truman Show go on to become mere cult films.
As a critic, I sometimes fear that I've…
"One shot..."
It is often the case that a director crashes and burns after they make a great film, it happened to Shyamalan, the Wachowskis, Besson, and countless others that I could name. But none ever happened quite as dramatically as it did to Michael Cimino, who went from making what many, including myself, consider to be one of the greatest films of all time into making Heaven's Gate, which is considered one of the biggest box office and critical…
