With Eraserhead, David Lynch proved himself a master of the waking nightmarescape. In The Elephant Man, he brought a sense of that surrealism to a biopic. Dune proved he wasn’t the guy to make a ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
Criterion releases have a distinct way of spurring cinephiles to digitally-evoked frustration. With each new release comes the same rejoinder. A title is either too popular, or not popular enough, to ...
Blow Out is a paranoid, neo-noir, psychological thriller. It is among auteur director Brian De Palma’s most noteworthy efforts and the themes explored within continue to be relevant more than 40 years ...
When you set yourself down to pondering, you realize westerns once occupied a huge swath of cinematic territory. But much like the lost open spaces of the West itself, they have been crowded out. In ...
Hello there friends, it has been awhile since I done a DVD review, and this review is on a film that is one of my all-time favorite films, GODZILLA which is the name in the US, but in Japan its known ...
Our friends at The New Criterion review my new book, The Smallest Minority, here. An excerpt: “Witness the sociopolitical climate, current year. To please the masses has always been to wield power, ...
There are performances, rare though they may be, that come in and grab you by the short and curlies. There is no denying Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, and ...