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LifeHack

If Unfriended: Dark Web is Screenlife showing the Internet at its worst, LifeHack, while not unafraid of that darkness, is much more optimistic about its potential.

Dandelion’s Odyssey

Dandelion’s Odyssey

Yes, you read that right: this is an animated film without words about dandelion seeds traversing the cosmos in search of a new home.

Libera te Tutemet: The Three Musketeers (2011)

Libera te Tutemet: The Three Musketeers (2011)

Anderson at his most idealistic.

In The Lost Lands

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In The Lost Lands

The sort of world one wishes they could give Ted Cruz a one-way ticket to.

Libera te Tutamet: Pompeii (2014)

Libera te Tutamet: Pompeii (2014)

One of the greatest cinematic achievements of the 21st century.

INTERVIEW: Director Kelsey Egan on ‘THE FIX’ and Engaging with Criticism

INTERVIEW: Director Kelsey Egan on ‘THE FIX’ and Engaging with Criticism

"YouTube and TikTok are the demise of cinema"

Carole & Grey

TikTok is going to change the way movies are watched and made. And Carole & Grey, a film conceived of in 45 clips meant for the easily digestible TikTok, is the first film to fully embrace the coming change.

The 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

The 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

BIFAN’s embrace of sexuality is one example of its willingness to reach for something extra.

GO TO: 300 (2007) dir. Zack Snyder

GO TO: 300 (2007) dir. Zack Snyder

...gives nearly any other film on this side of the century marker an insurmountable standard to claim the title as the most mythological storytelling display in 21st-century cinema

The Musicality of The Beast

The Musicality of The Beast

Interview: Rebel Moon VFX Supervisor Marcus Taormina

Interview: Rebel Moon VFX Supervisor Marcus Taormina

Enjoy this glimpse into the creation of Rebel Moon.

The 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF)

The 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF)

The only International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) A-list film festival in Northern Europe or the Baltic, Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival just wrapped up its 27th year and celebrated by breaking all major attendance records from the festival’s history, as PӦFF director Tiina Lokk-

Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire (2023) dir. Zack Snyder

Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire (2023) dir. Zack Snyder

Snyder’s inviolable picture bids for a better Hollywood. If we’re lucky, it might even be a taste of what’s to come.

Failed State (2023) dir. Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer

Failed State (2023) dir. Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer

Bell and Blummer give a stronger condemnation of neo-liberal economic failure and the dearth of a social welfare system than the traditional journalistic documentary would have been able to.

The Beauty and Rewatchability of Event Horizon

The Beauty and Rewatchability of Event Horizon

With inspirations varying from Hieronymus Bosch and Warhammer 40,000 to the literal architecture of the Notre Dame Cathedral and Fritz Lang, Paul WS Anderson’s earliest great work Event Horizon (1997) more than holds up as it approaches its 26th year. It’s one of the great 20th-century

Notes on the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

Notes on the 27th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

We live in a digital, uber-modern world: that’s the message from the 27th Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival. Following the global trauma of pandemic isolation, the films I viewed at this year’s festival overwhelmingly pointed to the shared anxieties of a post-pandemic world, including but not limited

Some Changes…

As you may have noticed, I rebranded my personal film website from Transcendent Cinema to No Gods Left: Toward A Millennium of Cinema. That’s because I have something else in store for that project and that URL, which will be evolving into a team effort with a globally and

Watching Movies on a Small Screen Is a Better Experience. If You Care About Audio

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No Technophobes Allowed in Aliens

No Technophobes Allowed in Aliens

I’ve always preferred James Cameron’s version of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Aliens to the Ripley of Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien. A lot has been said on the differences, especially as they relate to sexuality and the male gaze, between Scott’s version and Cameron’s. James

Sakra and the Legacy of Donnie Yen

Sakra and the Legacy of Donnie Yen

On the proverbial Mount Rushmore of cinematic martial artists, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung are gimmes. The debate follows them: Bruce Lee, Tony Jaa, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins, Cheng Pei-pei, Stephen Chow, and, of course, Donnie Yen. No matter how you filter and juggle the

Exiting Through the 2010s (Podcast Appearance): Resident Evil: Retribution and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Exiting Through the 2010s (Podcast Appearance): Resident Evil: Retribution and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

I join joins Clay and Jack on Exiting Through the 2010s for a retrospective on the finale of the Paul WS Anderson films for the much-maligned Resident Evil franchise in 2012’s Retribution and 2016’s The Final Chapter. Together, we examine Michelle Rodriguez’s career, updating video games

'Beast' Shows Up Shy of Canon

'Beast' Shows Up Shy of Canon

The most realistically rendered animals since 2019’s Lion King.

Closer Look: The Kremlin in 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol'

Closer Look: The Kremlin in 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol'

We believe the technological achievements of the MI6 world, despite also knowing, even if subconsciously, that nothing is there; the guard can’t see shit.

'Carter' is a Visceral Trainwreck

'Carter' is a Visceral Trainwreck

Basically 'The Bourne Identity' meets 'Hardcore Henry' directed by a would-be Michael Bay

Special Effects Cinema at Its Finest: S.S. Rajamouli and RRR

Special Effects Cinema at Its Finest: S.S. Rajamouli and RRR

In his review of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (2005), Roger Ebert wrote with his usual eloquence, “special effects should be judged not by their complexity but by the degree that they stimulate the imagination.” This lesson was neglected, discarded, or perhaps never learned by many of