Author: Landon Palmer

Tomorrow, the Sacha Baron Cohen-starring, Larry Charles-directed The Dictator opens. Unlike the previous two docu-prank collaborations between Charles and Cohen, the humor of the fully…

Crowding a movie with talent often seems like a good idea only in the abstract sense. In practice, such films can easily feel overstuffed. For…

Imagine what some of our most beloved romantic films would look like if they were made in the 21st century. Laura and Alec of David…

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Cabin in the Woods Carol J. Clover’s 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws was one of the rare academic books…

Way back in the summer of 2004, on the heels of the great success of I Love the 80s and (later) I Love the 70s,…

Veteran filmmaker Paul Schrader, notorious author Bret Easton Ellis, and indie producer Braxton Pope want you to audition for their new film. They’re assembling a…

Most dystopian science-fiction narratives feature stories in which a protagonist experiences a process of ‘waking up,’ transitioning from a state of blind ignorance to one…

What exactly do we mean when we find a movie to be boring? Does boring mean redundant? Monotonous? Tedious? Wearisome? Frustrating? Tiring? Uninteresting? Not challenging?…

In one of the few times that Corrina Belz’s documentary Gerhard Richter Painting breaks its present-tense, fly-on-the-wall approach to its titular subject, an archival black-and-white…