Author: Landon Palmer

There will inevitably be a movie about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden – this much is certain. Recent news has established that Kathryn…

The personalities of runners always seem to run the gamut. On the one hand, regular exercise and fitness is a sign of stability, a display…

I am not a fan of 3D. Even in the most technologically adept cases where the 3D landscape has layers of depth, even in those…

Ideology is inescapable from cinema. I’ve yet to encounter the situation in which Paul Narboni and Jean-Luc Comolli’s thesis from their essay “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism,” in which…

This editorial features some spoilers for Hanna and Kick-Ass. Consider yourself warned. In preparation for this post I ran a quick Internet search on child assassins…

Legendary American filmmaker Sidney Lumet passed away today of lymphoma at the age of 86. Lumet has had a long and distinguished career directing films…

This editorial contains spoilers for Source Code and Moon. If you haven’t seen the movies yet, go check it out first before diving in. When I…

There’s something to be said about a good sports movie. They often have the most tired formulas, and easily devolve into sap and lazy storytelling,…

A little more than 100 years ago, cinema was a deceivingly simple spectacle. Late 19th-century vaudeville audiences would attend variety shows and be introduced to…