Articles by Mark Carpenter
The Swell Season
Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins & Carlo Mirabella-Davis
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
It may sound like damning with faint praise, but Once may just be the best movie musical of the last decade. It has a disarming naturalism,...
House of Dark Shadows / Night of Dark Shadows
Dan Curtis
PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012
With its darkly gothic recasting of the even then antiquated soap opera format in the '60s, T.V. series Dark Shadows paved the way for the...
Outpost: Black Sun
Steve Barker
PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2012
The Nazi zombie trope is a familiar one in today's videogames, movies and television (i.e., Norwegian movie Dead Snow and various Call Of D...
Brainstorm [Blu-Ray]
Douglas Trumbull
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2012
This ill-fated movie is best known today as star Natalie Wood's final film, released posthumously. It is also the last feature directed by...
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax [Blu-Ray]
Chris Renaud & Kyle Balda
PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2012
This new CGI adaptation of Dr Seuss's ecological fable expands on its source material in familiar post-Pixar fashion, with songs, added cha...
The Secret World of Arietty [Blu-Ray]
Hiromasa Yonebayashi
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2012
The latest product of Japan's Studio Ghibli to hit North America, The Secret World of Arietty is an adaptation of children's classic The Bo...
The Truth About Cats And Dogs [Blu-Ray]
Michael Lehmann
PUBLISHED May 19, 2012
New on Blu-Ray, in a bare-bones edition, the 1996 rom-com The Truth About Cats And Dogs now seems a bit of a period piece, and not just bec...
Of Dolls And Murder
Susan Marks
PUBLISHED May 8, 2012
Of Dolls And Murder is a documentary about the work of Baltimore forensics pioneer Frances Glessner Lee. The best parts of the film show he...
