Five Movies With Bad Sequels (Guest Post)
We’ve all seen them: movie sequels that never should have been made. The original movie was great, so when the sequel comes out, you think, “Hey, why not? The first one was good, so I’ll give it a shot.” And then you watch it, falling into a trap that has been catching moviegoers since the … Read more
Academia: Altman Makes The Long Goodbye, But Not to Film Noir (Guest Post)
Last week, we posted an article about the 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s harbdoiled novel The Big Sleep starring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and whether it should be classified as a film noir. This week, we look at another adaptation of a Chandler novel from 1973: Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, starring Elliot Gould and Nina … Read more
Op-Ed: Five Films to Cuddle Up With
As you may or may not have heard, I am now officially a film correspondent for The Massachusetts Daily Collegian. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I was asked to create a multimedia presentation for the paper. Below you will find the fruits of my labor: five excellent films you and your significant other can … Read more
Movie Review: Elza (Le bonheur d’Elza)
Elza (also known as Le bounheur d’Elza) is a semi-autobiographical independent drama about a young French woman and her search to find her estranged father in Guadaloupe. Directed and co-written by Mariette Monpierre, the movie is notable for being first narrative film by a female Guadeloupean director However, despite the promise of a highly personal, … Read more
Academia: The Big Sleep And Genre: Neither Here Noir There
Howard Hawks’ seminal classic The Big Sleep is difficult to categorize. The first instinct for many film writers and scholars has been to categorize it immediately as a so-called “film noir,” lumping the movie together with other classic films like John Houston’s The Maltese Falcon and Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity. However, it is difficult to … Read more
Op-Ed: On Abrams, Star Wars, and Episode VII
After rumors started really picking up about the next director of the Star Wars franchise, Disney released a statement officially confirming that JJ Abrams, director of the 2009 reboot of Star Trek and the more recent Super 8, will head up Episode VII. So the guy who successfully resurrected an old science fiction show has been assigned to another … Read more
