Putting atrocities on film and shocking an audience is not particularly difficult. Human history is sufficiently replete with horrors like…
George Wu
George Wu holds a masters degree in cinema studies from NYU. He eats, drinks, and sleeps movies. Fortunately, he lives in New York City, the best place in the country for disorders of this type. He also works on the occasional screenplay when inspiration strikes, but his muses don't slap him around enough.
Great openings more often than not, presage great movies. Think of Apocalypse Nows hallucinatory reverie, Manhattans authorial difficulties, or Touch…
For movie connoisseurs and critics, a films style is often as important as its content if not more so. After…
Writer-director-actor Stephen Chow has been Hong Kong cinemas reigning cinematic comedian for fifteen years running and Jackie Chans most consummate…
Torremolinos 73 is director Pablo Bergers first feature film, which has some irony being that it is the story of…
When critics evaluate movies, some of the things typically looked at are the direction, the acting, how well the story…
Miramax strangely shelved Zhang Yimous previous film, Hero, for two years even though it received an Academy Award nomination for…
In 2002 and 2003, yet another round of public consternation grew over the revelation that thousands of children had suffered…
After anthropomorphizing toys, bugs, monsters, and fish, Pixar finally turns its attention to computer generated imagerys most difficult task, animating…
In The Day After Tomorrow, super nerds, and not just any super nerds, but super good-looking nerds tackle The Perfect…
American Indie veteran Jim Jarmuschs first film since 1999s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is this series of…