Return from Obscurity – Silent Trigger: Shooting the Film

A Book Review by Willliam Blick. Author Danny Stewart provides a comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of the finer points of this above-average action/drama.” The films that make up Dolph Lundgren’s oeuvre are not usually the study of film critics or theorists. This is not so in Danny Stewart’s new book, […]

The Modern Movie Palace: How the Multiplex Came to Be

By Gary D. Rhodes. Multi-theatre construction is the latest thing.”  – Mel Lebewitz, Northwest Cinema Corporation, 1972 Build them and they will come.”  – Jeff Forman, Buena Vista Pictures, 1996 In 1970, a film magazine pointedly asked readers, “Whatever happened to the singles?” The question wasn’t about dollar bills or […]

Bloodlines and Battlefields: Julia Weisberg Cortés on Boyfighter

By James Slaymaker. It’s a film designed to make you feel something, even if you don’t understand it. Again, it’s like looking at nature…. You may not understand why it makes you want to cry. There’s just a universal experience.” —Julia Weisberg Cortés One of the standout short films at […]

Free from Authoritarian Force: Radical Children’s Film and Television

A Book Review Essay by André Seewood. Unique and vital contribution to children’s screen studies….” Children’s Screen Studies is a discipline that is growing exponentially every day. As scholars all over the globe turn their attention to the child on screen and the media created for children it becomes increasingly clear […]

The Secret History: Introduction to Hollywood Haunts the World

By Robert Guffey. When one is most concerned with telling an entertaining story rather than fashioning a persuasive speech or an opaque legal document that will resist the scrutiny of a battery of attorneys, one tends to relax and let one’s guard down. And the truth, often by accident, will […]

The Soul Through a Series of Trials: Bruno Dumont’s Hadewijch (2009)

By Jackson Diianni. A landmark of Dumont’s career, and one of modern history’s most incredible films.” Bruno Dumont’s Hadewijch, released 16 years ago, was, until recently, unavailable to stream in the U.S., but has now become available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV and several other services, where it can hopefully […]