All movies, at some point, contain a test. A moment in the narrative where you, the viewer, get to decide to continue down the path the movie walks, or go and find something else to watch. Some movies are more … Continue reading 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
How does one live in a world after it ends? I’m not talking about hoarding provisions and the nuts and bolts of kill-or-be-killed survival, but the impulse to live when everything around you dies. For the characters of 28 Years … Continue reading 28 YEARS LATER
What are you boys fighting for? That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote finds it in the story of a Union soldier encountering a beleaguered Confederate rebel, a … Continue reading CIVIL WAR
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new horror movie from writer/director Alex Garland, Men. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 … Continue reading
Men, the latest from writer/director Alex Garland, opens with unfathomable horror: As a husband falls to his death, he passes by the window of his apartment and momentarily locks eyes with his wife. This is the crucial moment Garland anchors … Continue reading MEN
If Annihilation could be distilled into a single image, it would be that of a hand seen through a glass of water. Crystal clear, the water reflects precisely what is set in front of it, and, in this case, it’s a human … Continue reading ANNIHILATION
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