Blue Steel
Kathryn Bigelow introduces her lead character, Officer Meg Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis), in the pre-credit sequence of Blue Steel (1990). In this sequence Officer Turner is reprimanded for not being… Read more »
Tag: Jamie Lee Curtis
Halloween Ends
Halloween Ends (2022) marks the close of director David Gordon Green’s tenure as the creative force steering the Halloween franchise. Green made the franchise feel more current, more urgent by… Read more »
Everything Everywhere All At Once
It’s become increasingly rare that a Hollywood blockbuster is as intelligent as it is funny and as visually imaginative as it is deeply moving. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s (stylized… Read more »
Halloween Kills
The second of three films that David Gordon Green is directing for Blumhouse Productions, Halloween Kills (2021), revisits a number of themes and narrative elements that have appeared previously in… Read more »
Knives Out
When I saw Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019) at my local Cinemark I disliked it. Seeing Knives Out two years later I like it even less. Johnson’s film is as… Read more »
True Lies
What James Cameron sets out to do with True Lies (1994), and does, is to make a genre film that is absolutely about its genre without ever being openly analytical… Read more »
