Commentary

The Simpsons: Family Ties

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In a season crammed with the highest of high profile DVD releases (Godfather, Citizen Kane, Phantom Menace), for legions of gee… I mean ani...

Exclaim! Critics' Top Films of 2008

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009

1. Slumdog Millionaire 2. Wall-E 3. The Wrestler 4. The Dark Knight 5. Let the Right One In 1. Slumdog Millionaire(Directed by Dann...

Postmodern Celebrity and the Knack of Adaptation

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

The premise is a whopper. While director Spike Jonze was filming Being John Malkovich, his creative partner, writer Charlie Kaufman was hir...

To Kill A Mockingbird

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

It's hard to describe, more than 40 years after its release, the impact of To Kill A Mockingbird. The 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulit...

Lost In Translation

Sofia Coppola's Journey Into Culture Clash

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

With Tokyo, it begins. It should be called the city of lights: neon, flashing, constant. Billboards and huge, high resolution video screen...

Zombie Jamboree

The Undead Rise Again

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

Hundreds of them shamble slowly toward you, moaning and murmuring, their rotting bodies moving in horrifying unison, their worm-ridden eye...

Throw-up Throw Down

Hip-hop History Written On the Wall

PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

It's been 20 years since Style Wars, the hip-hop documentary about the lives of graffiti writers first surfaced, and as the scene has evolv...