Category: Articles – Assorted

My latest feature for IFC News should be right up the alley of those Americans frightened to death of Wal-Mart and Starbucks. It’s a list of cinema’s ten most powerful corporations, and can be found via the stunningly efficient link below. Ten Disturbingly Powerful Fictional Film Corporations (IFC News)

IFC News and Nerve.com have teamed up for another film list, this time determining the 50 Worst Sex Scenes in Cinema. Below is a link to the feature’s main page – for my contributions, check out numbers 42, 34, 23 and 4. 50 Worst Sex Scenes in Cinema (IFC News)

Acclaimed documentarian Errol Morris tackles the infamous Abu Ghraib photos with Standard Operating Procedure, though his latest film is ultimately less an investigation into uncovering the scandal’s true villains than an examination of image construction and interpretation. Morris discussed his motivations for making the film, as well as his dramatic recreations of the Abu Ghraib…

IFC News and Nerve.com have teamed up to determine the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time, and I’ve chimed in with my own thoughts on a few of the list’s selections. Below is a link to the feature’s main page, but for my own capsules, check out numbers 40, 18, 16, and 14. 50…

For my return to the pages of SOMA magazine, I profile Brady Corbet – star of Greg Araki’s superb Mysterious Skin and Michael Haneke’s stateside remake of his controversial 1997 meta-thriller Funny Games – in which the actor discusses collaborating with the Austrian auteur, his unhappy experience making 2004’s Thunderbirds, and his desire to work…

In the field of cinematography, Christopher Doyle has few peers. I was able to chat with the legendary cameraman via email for IFC News, an interview in which he discussed (among other topics) his latest collaboration with Gus Van Sant and the way that physical spaces provide artistic inspiration. Christopher Doyle on Paranoid Park (IFC…

‘Tis the season for scares. And over at IFC News, I’ve gotten into the Halloween spirit by sampling some horror anthologies which, in their own way, represent the best and worst that the subgenre has to offer. Tales From the Dark Side of Anthologies (IFC News)

My last two articles for SOMA magazine – an August 2007 feature on Julie Delpy, and a September 2007 piece on Paul Haggis – never made it online, so I’m very happy to report that my latest contribution has recently been posted on the mag’s site. It’s the October’s issue’s cover story: a profile of…

My latest IFC News feature takes a look at Ang Lee, whose career – as the article’s title expresses – is fixated on the repression of desire, and whose above-average Lust, Caution opens this week. Ang Lee: The Master of Repression (IFC News)

I recently sat down with Ryan Reynolds, he of Van Wilder and Blade: Trinity fame, to chat about his newest film, The Nines. As my latest IFC News feature proves, I refused to shy away from the tough questions other journalists are afraid to ask, such as why the former sitcom star appears shirtless in…