Author: Landon Palmer

Belgian artist Rene Magritte’s painting, The Treachery of Images (1928), famously features a painting of a pipe with the words painted below, “Ceci n’est pas…

Is Iron Man 2 an escapist, crowd-pleasing piece of big-budget popcorn entertainment, or a two-hour ad for neo-capitalism? Can it be both? I – Marxist Film…

Then – Rock Hudson There’s a scene (video below) midway through the Doris Day-Rock Hudson romantic comedy Pillow Talk (1959) that has always fascinated me. Through…

My favorite college screenwriting professor once explained to me the difference between an audience’s sympathy and empathy for a film’s characters. Empathy is a much…

As Cole Abaius pointed out late last week, a hyperbolic debate has occurred regarding the alleged potential of Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass to “kill” the superhero…

“But I didn’t go to jail…I went to Hollywood.” The above line comes from Orson Welles’s last completed film, the pseudo-documentary F for Fake (1972),…

You might think Steve Pink’s Hot Tub Time Machine is just another silly, raunchy studio comedy, and you’re probably right, but that isn’t going to…

Harmony Korine has been an unparalleled figure in the world of American independent film since his debut as the writer of Kids in 1995. With…

It’s difficult to know exactly what to do with Trash Humpers. It seems irrelevant and futile to take out my critical toolbox and attempt an…