“Elegant” may not be the first word that springs to mind when it comes to heavily armed Austrian cyborgs, but in the case of the original Terminator, it fits. Even some 30 years down the pipe, James Cameron’s nitro-burning B-movie remains a witty marvel of construction, smuggling some surprisingly resonant themes among its carnage and—possibly […]
Andrew Wright
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Hipster-sploitation
While We’re Young cuts both ways
God bless Greta Gerwig, and not just for her own terrific gifts. Greenberg, her first personal and professional collaboration with director Noah Baumbach, proved to be a fantastic match, most notably in how her loopy carbonation as a performer seemed to shake the filmmaker from an increasingly caustic, none-more-bleak path. (I firmly believe Baumbach’s Margot […]
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Uncertainty Principle
Upstream Color Is Gonna Melt Your Brain!
PRIMER, the 2004 debut film of writer/director/editor/composer/star Shane Carruth, stands as one of the foremost Great Whatsits of independent cinema. Made for $7,000, it told its time-travel story in a fashion that was somehow both eminently sensible and entrancingly brain-croggling, with a resolution that all but commanded viewers to go home and get busy on […]