The Impermanence of Style
Handheld, or “shaky,” camera is a lot older than one might believe. While the technique was used sparingly as early as the 1920s, it...
Chappie as Critical Whipping Boy
Neill Blomkamp’s career is currently in free fall. His first film, District 9, was nominated for four Academy Awards and received nearly...
Balancing the Humours
The second decade of the 21st century has been rough on Pixar. Between the releases of Toy Story in 1995 and Up in 2009, the animation...
We Get the Season 2 We Deserve
After two episodes of True Detective’s second anthology, the show’s first season is beginning to look like every auteur theorist’s new...
The Silent, Violent World of The Tribe
The Tribe is, for all intents and purposes, a silent film. It features no discernible dialogue, no music, and what soundtrack there is...
The Tusk Paradox: Spoilers in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Kevin Smith’s Tusk does not exist in a vacuum. It owes its existence, directly and indirectly, to two preceding works: directly, to...