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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:…

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…

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…

If there’s one thing I love more than seeing a great movie for the first time, it’s sharing a movie that I find great with…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been reveling in the death of the chain video store. Part of this is my knee-jerk reaction to…

I am in no way a regular sports fan, but I did show up at a bar in Austin this past weekend in an earnest…

Since our resident Phd candidate in Film Studies, Landon Palmer, is busy ironing his tweed jackets, I’m taking the opportunity to dumb the column down…