February 25, 2010 / Filmwell
The number of film critics who have indelibly shaped my understanding of the cinema is …
M.S. Smith
February 25, 2010 / Filmwell
February 25, 2010 / Filmwell
science fiction
Wen Reagan
January 15, 2010 / Perspective
January 15, 2010 / Perspective
A review of James Cameron’s new film AVATAR that explores the historical and theological ideas of the film.
M. Leary
April 3, 2009 / Filmwell
April 3, 2009 / Filmwell
By stripping down his camerawork to such bare elements, he also undoes a lot of the patterns and conventions we usually expect from science fiction. Whether it is intentional or not, Canary makes a lot of the same points as Sontag, who criticized her era of science fiction filmmaking as a fantasy that we use to cope with the terrors of the technological age.