Category: Looking Back

Twenty years ago, Katarina Stratford — played by the inimitable Julia Stiles — blasted Joan Jett’s “My Reputation” from the speakers […]

The first image in Ron Howard’s 1994 film The Paper is of gears turning inside an alarm clock. It’s a disorienting […]

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in […]

“You only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow – this opportunity comes once in a lifetime.” — […]

Last year, on Halloween, I read the first reports about a Mandarin duck inexplicably appearing in Central Park. Flaming orange frills […]

Like most self-absorbed teenage boys, my perspective on love in 2012 was complicated, to say the least. I was unattractive even […]

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in […]

No one could ever mistake a Jay Ward cartoon for being serious, not that they pandered to the preschool cheap seats […]

The only time I actually met Albert Finney, I was wearing an enormous cartwheel hat and chalk-white face paint and he […]

How could anyone even suggest making a sequel to The Fly? David Cronenberg’s 1986 sci-fi/horror remake of the 1958 classic is […]

On the whole, movie trailers haven’t had narrators for over a decade. They’ve been replaced by overbearing musical scores, ominous cover […]