The Warped Shelf – The Works of James Cameron
Before Avatar 2 comes out sometime in the next twenty years, we decided to look back at the man’s directorial filmography, and boy do we have things to say.
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Does it Hold Up: Aliens
Quite often, movies, books, music, television shows, and other pieces of pop culture serve as a reflection of the time when they were made. Sometimes they are very much rooted in that time, and no longer feel relevant in the decades that follow. Occasionally, though, they maintain every ounce of the power they were infused with when they were first […]
Read moreCinematic 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 […]
Read moreGreat Moments in Cinema: Alien
Part of the brilliance of director Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) is the way in which it demystifies space travel. His characters aren’t heroic astronauts or brilliant scientists or mystic space knights. Instead, they are blue-collar working stiffs who just happen to make their living on a mining ship that traverses the stars. It is a clever (if not wholly original) […]
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