A couple weeks removed from the Oscars, there isn’t much in the way of relevant movie news, but somehow our heroes soldier on, defeating minor issues like dire sickness and a limp set of news stories to find incredible nuggets of filmic truth in Episode 23 of ProjectionCast, which finds NP Awards Pundit/Senior Critic Jason McKiernan fighting off the flu while NP Founder Christopher Misch and …
When, at an early juncture in American Sniper, Clint Eastwood frames Bradley Cooper in the doorway of a barn silhouetted against the bright light of day, the direct visual reference to John Ford’s The Searchers is less a tipping of the ten-gallon hat than a…
“Do you know how many stars are in the universe?” ventures the young protagonist at one juncture of Annemarie Jacir’s excellent When I Saw You, one of many movies that could have…
When people think of horror sequels, there’s always a temptation to denounce them as inferior films. True, it is easy to start citing examples of lesser films in franchises like Friday the 13th or Saw…
To call the history of the interplay between movies and video games “spotty” would be to commit an act of startling charity. Who could forget such classic films as Double Dragon or Street Fighter, not to mention the whole oeuvre of the highly esteemed Uwe Boll?…
In 1959, François Truffaut introduced the world to the rebellious Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud). The child not only helped garner Truffaut the Best Director award (for The 400 Blows) at Cannes, but he also introduced international audiences to the Nouvelle Vague (the French New Wave)…
A hybrid of flesh eating piranhas are released into the rivers surrounding a summer resort, accidentally of course. No other animal attacking film has spawned so many follow-up or “inspired by” films as these beloved creatures. As natural flesh eaters and frantic in their feeding frenzies, they’re practically horror film fodder waiting to happen…
Similar to how the action genre has been mostly eaten up by giant comic book movies, the horror genre has suffered an equally tragic devouring. It’s hard to remember the last horror film that didn’t have someone clutching a crucifix while battling a demon baby growing inside their stomach…
Bong Joon-ho is a leading figure of the Korean New Wave and one of the most innovative filmmakers working today. Known for a macabre sense of humor, deft sensibility and social consciousness, he consistently garners excellent reviews and cult praise…
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (1932-1988) is certainly one of the key filmmakers of Brazilian filmmaking of the 1960s and early 1970s. But due in part to his early passing, he has a brief albeit highly diverse filmography consisting of five feature films, a feature-length documentary, and eight short films. Despite their diversity of …