Author: Adam Charles
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Criterion Files #545: The Redefinition of the American Dream in “Easy Rider”
As a relatively young person, far too young to speak meaningfully about an important era of American culture, it’s difficult for me to ascribe any…
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Criterion Files #409: Beauty and Sadness await in the “Days of Heaven”
Some films represent to many the indefinable expression of a dream. Often times it’s nightmarish, as that’s what we can easily discern as being particularly…
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Junkfood Cinema: ‘The Last Dragon’ is the Baddest of the Bad Low Down ‘Round This Town
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; where we get racist and you beat up the guy who typically runs this column because of it. Resident ingester…
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Criterion Files #36: Desperation Ignites Cautious Calamity in ‘The Wages of Fear’
“Think they pay you to drive? They pay you to be terrified.” It’s the line that inspires the title. Four men behind the wheel of…
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Culture Warrior: “Critics are as Critics do”
I am going to attempt something that many have tried and failed to communicate to people for the purpose of arriving at a reasonable understanding…
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Criterion Files #40: ‘Armageddon’
Why? In a sea of some of the most important pictures the world has known to date ‐ why? In a collection spanning nearly one-hundred…
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Review: The ‘Bellflower’ Tolls to the End
From the 2011 SXSW Film Festival, we review Evan Glodell’s explosive feature debut.
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Criterion Files #33: Lies Tell the Truth in ‘Nanook of the North’
The documentary feature has a considerably long history of a, most likely, mis-distinction in terms of what it actually is. To many, a documentary picture…
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SXSW Review: 96 Minutes
If there’s one thing consistently more frustrating than a film being out-and-out unwatchable it’s a film on the cusp of being really good if not…