A Mind on Fire

SIXTEEN CANDLES As a director John Hughes didn't leave a vast body work. It would only be a guessing game as to what else he would have created if not for his untimely death in 20…

Not even famed director David Cronenberg is safe from the remake madness. One of his first features was the plastic surgery gone wrong movie Rabid. Now more than forty years after …

(Spoilers Ahead) I’m not necessarily opposed to remakes. I’m not necessarily in favor of remakes. I question why studios remake movies and especially why Hollywood remakes classic …

I had never heard of The Exiles before we started our journey through the National Film Registry. However, I had heard of Sherman Alexie whose name is featured prominently on the D…

Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend starts with one of the most famous opening shots in cinema history. The scene opens with a view of the New York City skyline. The camera tracks alon…

In the past, alcoholism was a subject that was danced around. It wasn’t something people talked about in “polite society.” There were treatments of sorts for people who were lookin…

Terrance Malick all but disappeared from the cinematic landscape after the release of 1978’s Days of Heaven. Twenty years later Malick returned with one of the greatest anti-war mo…

TWIN PEAKS: THE SERIES "Going fishing" is the first line of the first episode of Twink Peaks. It's not as iconic as other lines that would spring up over the course of two seasons…

(We've danced up some spoilers) Ari Aster made a splash with his debut horror movie Hereditary. Hereditary, like all good films, has many levels to it. The hook was the demonic pos…

(We’ve unwrapped a few spoilers) Most of the movies we get around the holidays are full of bright lights, tinsel, and someone learning the “true meaning” of Christmas. How many tim…