Action Movie Countdown #8: ALIENS turns a horror sequel into a "roller coaster"
by Tessa Swehla, Associate Editor
While Alien is a masterwork in slow tension building, Aliens is bombastic.
DeLoreans and Phone Booths: THE TERMINATOR
by Sam Morris, Staff Writer
In most time travel films such as Back to the Future, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and even Avengers: Endgame, we are invited by the filmmakers to identify with the traveler. Cameron, however, asks us to do the opposite.
Romance Week: TITANIC, tropes, and romance aboard the “ship of dreams”
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, and Tessa Swehla, Staff Writer
Everyone loves a good old-fashioned forbidden upstairs-downstairs (or in this case, first class-steerage) romance.
Ryan Silberstein's Top 15 movies of 2022
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
I enjoy making lists. All kinds of lists. It’s just part of how my brain organizes things. But lists or rankings of art are merely snapshots of how I feel in a particular moment in time.
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER is James Cameron’s greatest hits album
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Combining cutting-edge technology with classic, earnest storytelling is firmly the hallmark of this series, and it honestly gave me almost everything I wanted from it.
Everything Old Is New Again, Vol. 46 - December, 2022
by “Doc” Hunter Bush, Podcast Czar
Season’s greetings readers! Here we are at the end of another exhausting year, searching for entertainment to accompany us during the long nights
TERMINATOR 2 works because it is tactile in its invention
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
The Terminator 2: Judgment Day Extreme DVD is the most ridiculous piece of physical movie media I own.
In ALIENS, Cameron rebukes post-Vietnam macho blockbusters
by A Freedman, Staff Writer
Number 9 in our countdown of the best summer blockbusters of all time.