Great Moments in Cinema – An American Werewolf in London

Vampires and zombies may be all the rage these days, but for my money, it’s the werewolf that occupies the top spot in the monster pantheon (okay, maybe second place, right behind Godzilla…but that’s another editorial altogether).  Unfortunately, the number of good werewolf movies can be counted on one hand, and even then you wouldn’t have to use all of […]

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Cinematic Soulmates: ¡Three Amigos!, A Bug’s Life, and Galaxy Quest

In my last column, I discussed how cinema is essentially a medium that is built upon its own history, with countless directors using their own films as excuses to pay homage to those that inspired them.  Whether it come in the form of lifting a particular bit of technical flair like a camera movement or editing choice, or the outright […]

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