Author: Landon Palmer

In the wake of the horrific shooting that occurred almost two weeks ago at a multiplex in Aurora, Colorado during a screening of The Dark…

Documentarian, experimental filmmaker, essayist, photographer, multimedia guru, and all-around Renaissance Man Chris Marker passed away in his home country of France yesterday, allegedly his 91st…

The common, received wisdom about Hollywood during The Great Depression tends to go like this: Hollywood played an important role as a place for escape,…

Exploitation cinema is good for the id. Because the great majority of us are not thieves, murderers, sociopaths, or people with problematic sexual instincts, exploitation…

Review: ‘Klown’ Is a Well-Executed, Envelope-Pushing Comedy But That Doesn’t Mean You’ll Enjoy Watching It The Danish television series Klovn (“Clown”) ran for six seasons, from…

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises (and other Christopher Nolan films). Christopher Nolan is the first director to make more than two…

In 2012, on the eve of the release of Christopher Nolan’s final Batman movie, Landon Palmer looked at the previous efforts with the character.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps, like his previous Academy-Award nominated critical favorite Dogtooth, is a movie that feels like a puzzle. Not an Inception or Lost-style puzzle…

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Moonrise Kingdom. Wes Anderson is known for getting his inspiration from a variety of sources. While Anderson’s signature visual quirks…