Jericho: Season 1

In the 1980s, as the Cold War between the United States and Russia was intensifying, there was a real, palpable fear of nuclear war. This was reflected in our popular culture with literature like Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka’s Warday, films as... 

Transformers: Special Edition

In the 1980s, Transformers were one of the most popular and profitable toy lines. So much so that the franchise expanded into a long-running cartoon, a movie, a comic book, and so on. It was only a matter of time (and money) before someone would try a... 

Days of Heaven: Criterion Collection

In retrospect, Days of Heaven (1978) can be seen as a transitional film for its director, Terrence Malick, whose first film, Badlands (1973), was a fictionalized account of Charles Starkweather, a young man who went on a killing spree with his teenage... 

Mala Noche

Mala Noche (1985) was Gus Van Sant’s feature film debut and an early example of what would become known as New Queer Cinema in the 1990s. More significantly, it was the first film in an informal trilogy set in Portland, Oregon that would also include... 

The Sarah Silverman Program: Season 1

I used to hate the comedy of Sarah Silverman. To me, her humour was crude, mean-spirited and intended to shock only for the sake of being so without any substance to it. The problem with her taboo-smashing brand of comedy is that sometimes she pushes... 

The City of Violence: Ultimate Edition

The City of Violence (2006) is a stylish action film that wears its many cinematic influences proudly on its sleeve. Filmmaker Ryoo Seung-Wan employs a bevy of flashy techniques like split screens, freeze frames and time lapse photography to tell a simple... 

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Artists have always been fascinated by the planet Mars, from books like H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, to films like Invaders from Mars (1953) and The Angry Red Planet (1960). Screenwriter Ib Melchior... 

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