Articles by J.M. McNab

Star Trek: Alternate Realities

PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2008

What makes an evil parallel universe evil? Goatees, mainly. So goes the logic of original Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror,” the lynchpin...

Not Quite Hollywood

Mark Hartley

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2008

Sex, gore, car chases, the sadistic killing of kangaroos, these are some of the elements that comprise "Ozploitation,” the Australian genre...

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Tatia Rosenthal

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

Ever wonder what Short Cuts would have been like if it was directed by California Raisins creator Will Vinton? It probably would have been...

Daytime Drinking (Not Sool)

Young-Seok Noh

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

Daytime Drinking is a wonderfully bizarre comedy of errors that relies on silence and mood as much as the bizarre events that comprise the...

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

Kevin Rafferty

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 may, at its most superficial, seem like a documentary about a football game. The film itself is comprised purely o...

It Might Get Loud

Davis Guggenheim

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

It Might Get Loud is an eccentric project. It’s not a concert film, a biography, or even a documentary in the most conventional sense. It s...

Me and Orson Welles

Richard Linklater

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

I first saw Citizen Kane when I was ten. Back then, it was hard for me to reconcile the image of the passionate, young Orson Welles as he a...

It Might Get Loud

Davis Guggenheim

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

It Might Get Loud is an eccentric project. It's not a concert film, a biography, or even a documentary in the most conventional sense. It s...