Culture Warrior

Pacing is a tricky thing to pull off in movies. It takes a truly talented filmmaker (and editor) to maintain a rate of movement, events,…

Although Halloween has come and gone, the FSR universe of readers and contributors alike have hardly satiated their horror fix, so this week’s Culture Warrior…

The successful biopic is something that takes a truly masterful hand to accomplish. A lifetime, like history itself, contains no inherent narrative – no arc…

I try to avoid getting all autobiographical in my posts, but when discussing Where the Wild Things Are I really can’t avoid it. When I…

If there is ever a sleeper hit in 2009, Paranormal Activity is it. Accompanied with a lackluster visual marketing campaign (lame poster, lamer trailer), the…

Warning: In the interest of discussing the problem of spoilers, this article discusses the act of spoiling in criticism of the film Antichrist, a discussion…

Austin is now the third major US city I’ve lived in since officially leaving the nest of my parents’ home in central Texas six years…

Not many popular television shows are also period pieces. When dealing with a period narrative that only takes place within the running time of a…

It seems that every year we’re introduced to some film that proposes itself to display the newest advancements in digital imaging technology. Occasionally these films…