Features and Columns

Exploring The Twilight Zone #148: Caesar and Me

With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover… Read More

Exploring The Twilight Zone #147: Sounds and Silences

With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover… Read More

Aural Fixation: Composer Marc Streitenfeld May Play to ‘The Grey,’ But His Chilling Score Won’t…

Aural Fixation: Composer Marc Streitenfeld May Play to ‘The Grey,’ But His Chilling Score Won’t Leave You ColdGetting lost in the… Read More

37 Things Learned From the ‘Hard Candy’ Commentary

In honor of our brave rejects battling the snowy terrain and darkened theaters of Sundance, we felt it best to… Read More

Disc Spotlight: Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park (Blu-ray)

Pseudo documentaries, and their bastard cousin the “found footage” genre, usually come in two varieties. There are comedies like the… Read More

Culture Warrior: How the 70s Proved Mass-Marketing Wasn’t the Only Way to Make Movies

As much as I admire the incomparable films made during the era, New Hollywood (the term referring to innovative, risk-taking… Read More

Exploring The Twilight Zone #146: I Am The Night — Color Me Black

With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover… Read More

Austin Cinematic Limits: Austin Takes Sundance By Storm [Again]

I promise not to begin every Austin Cinematic Limits post with a discussion on Richard Linklater’s significance to Austin’s filmmaking… Read More

Aural Fixation: ‘Haywire’ Brings the Violence, Composer David Holmes Keeps It Playful

Audiences have been eagerly awaiting the release of soon-to-be retired (or so was once widely claimed) Steven Soderbergh’s latest film,… Read More