Film Oct 30, 2021
How Hans Zimmer conjured the otherworldly sounds of ‘Dune’
by Darryn King
Composer Hans Zimmer worked with a far-flung “band” of collaborators who sung, scraped metal, invented instruments and more for the epic sci-fi film's score.
Film / Reviews May 17, 2017
It's all about the humans in 'Arrival'
by Giovanni Fazio
With "Arrival," director Denis Villeneuve takes a very familiar alien invasion scenario and tries to put a new twist on it. While everyone from H. G. Wells in "War of the Worlds" to Roland Emmerich in "Independence Day" has envisioned a swarm of spacecraft ...
Film / Reviews Jul 16, 2014
by Giovanni Fazio
Very few directors have picked up the gauntlet thrown down by David Lynch's films such as "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive." These are films steeped in mysteries so deep that Lynch himself is positively daring audiences to wrap their heads around them; they are ...
Film May 1, 2014
This tale of brutal vengeance is no fantasy
by Kaori Shoji
A thousand things can go wrong in a kidnapping investigation, and "Prisoners" goes through about 100 of them before you lose count. After that it's easy to blackout under the chokehold of desperation that defines both the film and its protagonist, Keller Dover (Hugh ...