7 years ago
Stoker 4
The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
Read more →
Korean Import ‘The Tower’ Can’t Stand On Its Own
There are remakes and there are reboots, and then there are carbon copies like The Tower, a new-to-DVD Korean import that shamelessly reinterprets the 1974 American disaster epic The Towering Inferno for modern-day audiences. It’s needlessly familiar and hardl...
Read more →
Stoker: Korean Style Meets American Gothic in Beautifully Depraved Coming-of-Age Tale
A
At what point does style become substance? Many of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers were really quite pedestrian, predictable stories, but the director’s mastery of style and craft turned many of those films into beautiful works of art. The same could be said...
Read more →
Runyon’s 20 Most Anticipated Films of Sundance 2013
Like the majority of movie-buffs, I wasn't able to go to Sundance. One of these days, perhaps my dream will become a reality, but this year it was not meant to be.
In the meantime, all I could do was fawn over my Twitter feed to see what movies were getting...
Read more →