Articles by J.M. McNab

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic [Blu-Ray]

Jake Strider Hughes

PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2009

Conveniently preceding Zack Snyder's anxiously anticipated Watchmen movie, Warner and DC release Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic, a lit...

Turner Classic Movies: Romantic Dramas

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2009

It's hard to write new reviews of classic films. What insight can I provide on great filmmakers such as Nicholas Ray and Elia Kazan that ha...

Gumshoe

Stephen Frears

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2009

Gumshoe, Stephen Frears' first feature film, is very much a product of its time. The '70s found many popular directors re-examining the fil...

Tales From the Darkside: The First Season

Various Directors

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2009

With the success of Stephen King and George Romero's cinematic throwback to the pulp horror comics of the '50s, Creepshow, it became appare...

Coraline

Henry Selick

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2009

Coraline may be destined to become a classic children's film. Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, and directed by Henry Selick (The Nightmar...

Appaloosa

Ed Harris

PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2009

For those who thought Pollock should have been a Western, Ed Harris returns to the director's chair with Appaloosa, an old school cowboy fl...

New in Town

Jonas Elmer

PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2009

It's shocking that a movie as predictable and blandly familiar as New In Town is legally allowed to contain the word "new" in the title. Th...

Baghead

Duplass Brothers

PUBLISHED Jan 9, 2009

It was only a matter of time before the mumblecore movement became explicitly self-referential. In their follow-up to The Puffy Chair, the...