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On Prometheus and post-television cinema
Is Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) a half-baked pile of philosophical babble, or is it more seductively an early harbinger of a kind of post-television cinematic narrative—filmmaking in the age of...
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Star Trek into (Fandom’s) Darkness
If Trek was once a foundation for the idea of taking fans seriously, then today it might simply be a sad commentary on fandom’s token function within the industry, another form of “crowdsourcing,” a...
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vices?
Paul Thomas Anderson (from Vanity Fair) Paul Thomas Anderson’s forthcoming film, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice (2009), is quickly stockpiling quite the all-star cast. Rumors of Sean...
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Pixar and the Ambivalence of Nostalgia
As Pixar’s prequel, Monsters University (2013), premieres, some have highlighted the shift within the powerhouse animation studio towards recycling older properties and thus perceived creative...
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Drive-Ins, and the Stubborn Usefulness of Film Nostalgia
Interstellar (2014) made its well-known debut last weekend. In Chicago, the film (yes, we can still call it that) screened in its “intended” format of 70mm at the Navy Pier IMAX. Its appearance there...
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