Author: Landon Palmer

No doubt you’ve read about it if you haven’t seen it. The Other Guys, the latest collaboration between masters of the sophomoric Adam McKay and…

Amongst the universal critical applause currently being bestowed upon Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, one bit of praise seems to connect them all:…

The inevitable day eventually comes in film school in which one learns the famed and much-debated Kuleshov Effect. It basically goes like this: In the…

With all the invention, intriguing plot webs, and overall solid cinematic storytelling that Christopher Nolan’s films are credited for, yet another innovative characteristic of his…

Culture Warrior is our weekly walk on the wild side with actual film school graduate (now with even more Doctoral candidacy!) Landon Palmer. In this…

The Criterion Collection if full of important films of epic length, films whose thematic and philosophical wanderings require a breadth of screen time and a…

There has been a heated debate happening in the world of art cinema criticism, from the printed words of Sight and Sound to the blogspots…

I argued in a Culture Warrior article last year that bad films give audiences a degree of power and authority over the enormous and intricate…

Sixteen years after the release of Chungking Express – the film that placed Wong Kar-Wai firmly and what seems to be permanently in the realm…