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To movie critics (including myself): yer doin’ it wrong.

Some movies are meant to be slow. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. Slow can be beautiful.

1960 changed horror filmmaking forever. Don’t believe me? Read on.

The successful biopic is something that takes a truly masterful hand to accomplish, but not many movies do it well. This week’s Culture Warrior asks why.

In Where the Wild Things Are, childhood logic is never illogical and to act as a child is not the same thing as being childish.

This week’s Culture Warrior talks fake movies that look real but are fake, from Paranormal Activity to Blair Witch to old people getting in it with garbage.

Bronson is a truly unique and ambitious, occasionally impenetrable piece of filmmaking carefully calculated in its execution and matched by Tom Hardy’s magnificent, career-defining lead performance.

Don’t worry, Landon is done arguing his case for Lars von Trier’s new film, but he has a bone to pick with critics who feel entitled to spoil it simply because they don’t like a movie.

Lars von Trier’s new film is about a dysfunctional couple.

This adaptation of a short story by Clive Barker contains a compelling concept that deserved better treatment.

The UK horror flick gives a nice fresh tweak to a tired and all-too-familiar horror trope.

This Indonesian horror flick/gorefest stays reliably within the comfortable realm of predictability, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

One of Fantastic Fest’s best surprises has US distribution and a release date.

Paranormal Activity follows the Hitchcock 101 school of filmmaking like it’s scripture: show as little as possible and let audience imagination fill in the rest. It’s a rule most horror films could implement a bit more, and it works in this film to an astoundingly effective degree.

This week’s Culture Warrior takes a look at three great American cities and their equally great cultures of movie nerd-dom.

This week’s Culture Warrior is so good that it took three extra days to write.

This week’s Culture Warrior explains why puppet Yoda is far superior to digital Yoda.

This week’s Culture Warrior examines how independent film is changing the relationship of film and music, and questions the validity of the “indie” label.

This week’s Culture Warrior explains how Tarantino’s latest has matured the filmmaker beyond simple homage to cinema’s past and instead displays a reverence to the overall potential power movies have to offer, rooted in the sacred experience of the movie theater.

This week’s Culture Warrior looks at District 9’s place amongst the very best of smart science fiction.