Articles by Will Sloan

My Name is Khan

Karan Johar

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

Because irony has yet to infiltrate the Indian film industry, and because modern Hindi cinema is so heavily influenced by Hollywood, Bollyw...

Forbidden World

Allan Holzman

PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2010

Sometimes you have to take your silver linings where you can get them. Take Forbidden World, a low-budget, 1982 sci-fi obscurity. Knowing t...

Our Family Wedding

Rick Famuyiwa

PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2010

Our Family Wedding contains a scene in which Carlos Mencia (playing a racist tow truck operator) takes his prospective son-in-law (a black...

The Last Airbender

M. Night Shyamalan

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2010

M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender is so vast in its awfulness that I fear reviewing it will devolve simply into a laundry list of com...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume XVIII

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2010

If it is true that the world can be divided into Beatles fans and Rolling Stones fans, perhaps viewers of seminal puppets-making-fun-of-bad...

Time Bandits

Terry Gilliam

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2010

In Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits, David Warner, as the fearsome Evil Genius (for all intents and purposes, the Devil), lurks in his lair, ra...

Gamera vs. Barugon

Shigeo Tanaka

PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2010

Humanity must have felt pretty cocky when it managed to lure Gamera (the nuclear-mutated flying turtle) into a spacecraft that launched him...

Shinjuku Incident

Derek Yee

PUBLISHED Jun 11, 2010

"It's so difficult being an action star today," says Jackie Chan in an interview on the Shinjuku Incident DVD. "Before, action stars just f...