Annals Of The Hive

I’m thinking about defending the studio system against promiscuous  auteurism . I suspect the studio system may be our best chance to mainta...

Compared to the action-packed super-realism of time travel films like the Terminator series,  12 Monkeys and Planet of the Apes , the black-...

When the world gets to be too much for me, I pull out one of my video collections and escape for a couple of days.  I have Angels In America...

I started Cassavetes' A Woman Under The Influence last night and I had to turn it off. I only got as far as Gena Rowlands coming back to...

There is an element of the hunt in documentary films, a delicious kind of trophy hunting at its lightest, but, at its heaviest, a predatory ...

Bring forth men-children only, for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males. -- Macbeth Why do women tear other women down?  ...

Kathyrn Bigelow is about to become the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director. Whether she deserves the Best Director prize...

Be sure you see the 3D version of James Cameron's Avatar (2009). The 3D visuals are the only thing Avatar has going for it. Without t...

After single-handedly creating a 3D bubble with Avatar , James Cameron is trying to fill it. Since Avatar was released last year, the univ...

I don't want to wait 10 years to review the sequel to  Avatar (2009) , so I thought I'd pick up on some of James Cameron's main ...

(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Just when I thought Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker didn't have a chance to win the Academy Award f...