Culture Warrior

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.

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.

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.

For somebody associated with making some of the most resonant teen comedies in modern cinema history, John Hughes still doesn’t receive enough credit—mainly because, before John Hughes, there really was no such thing as the teen comedy.

Don’t let the obvious title fool you–Landon actually enjoyed Judd Apatow’s latest, and this week’s Culture Warrior explores the virtues of an unfunny movie about funny people.

What do NBC’s The Philanthropist, Secret Millionaire, and Seven Pounds have in common with Iron Man, Batman, and Bono? This week’s Culture Warrior will tell you.

This week Landon watched Harry Potter 1-5 in a row, and wants to share with you every passing thought he had along the way.

Bruno is Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest satirical romp through a disturbing and often intolerant American culture, but who is really at the butt of the joke?

This week’s Culture Warrior looks at Hollywood’s gradual acceptance of digital video and the important role of Michael Mann and Public Enemies within this major change in the industry.

While it may seem a little nonsensical at first for a movie site of all places to participate in giving the late King of Pop his due regard, it seems to me that on closer examination, the music and celebrity persona of Michael Jackson has played a significant but largely unexamined role in influencing cinematic expression.