Howard Chaykin – A Life in Comics
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.
It might have been the insomnia that sparked it all. Legendary Belgian cartoonist and illustrator François Schuiten recalls that he couldn’t sleep when...
After a string of successes on television, having made a name for himself on projects such as Starsky and Hutch> and Police Story, Michael Mann ...
Michael Mann’s 2006 big screen revamp of 1980s groundbreaking TV show Miami Vice (Brandon Tartikoff, NBC’s entertainment president scribbled “MTV cops” ...
In 1986, Michael Mann’s 'Manhunter' elevated schlock-horror to a thoughtful, stylised, forensically psychological level, introducing the concept of a ...
Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...
Twenty-one years on, David Fincher’s The Game (1997) has come to be seen as a prescient, schadenfreude look at the gulf between us and the “one ...
“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."
Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'
As far back as I can remember, director Martin Scorsese has been synonymous with wiseguys, mooks, goombahs, and spin-on-a-dime funny-how guys delivering...
Trying to catch a break from all the Star Wars hype, in the spring of 1977, George Lucas was resting on a Hawaiian beach, building sand castles with ...
It was never going to last that long. Golden ages rarely do. But for a while there in the 1970s that’s what we had.
An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.
It’s said that a movie is made three times: once through a script, once on set, and finally in the…
Rone Tempest's gripping true crime story of a Puerto Rico-born undercover officer gunned down by a white Wyoming lawman in 1978
The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented...
By the tail end of the 1960s, the Hollywood studio system was in the doldrums. The British film industry...
The rise of the VHS supergiants, PM Entertainment, and their everlasting stamp on the genre of action films
Writer and film critic Sean Witzke introduces readers to the glamorously unsettling world of the fashion horror genre.
You think I’m crazy? You call me crazy, you think I’m crazy? You wanna see crazy?…
Chloe Maveal provides a comparative look into Judge Dredd as a predictor of unchecked contemporary police brutality.
When I look at Kaluta's artwork for comic book covers the thing that always strikes me is that the work doesn't...
Burt Lancaster is one of the greatest actors to ever appear in films, but he didn’t hold all his work in high esteem. He is said to have looked down...
The year 1990 saw the publication of a non-fiction book entitled Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting...
American filmmaker Walter Hill is famous and revered for both his action movies and the fact that he revived the...
A friend of mine, an American painter living in London, had read the book and suggested that I look at it. I read it and thought ‘If I’m going to make a...
The idea originated in a conversation between me and Irving Kirshner. We were talking about espionage, and he said that most people thought the safest ...
You can keep your White Christmas and Holiday Inn!
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
An essay exploring the ways in which the Alien movie franchise exposes the horrors of the working class.
In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
What excited the general public and outraged horrified television moguls as a razor-sharp satire in 1976, a film promoted as outrageous, hasn’t lost its...
Brazil is the demented, surreal flip-side of George Orwell’s dystopian warning—"1984 1/2" was director Terry Gilliam’s originally…
This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect ...
The late American director John Frankenheimer began his career when the Cold War was at its peak...
American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist family in Grand Rapids, Michigan...
The stories behind director John Boorman and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs brilliant retelling of Donald Westlake's THE HUNTER
“I think I was always controversial, provocative. But I can’t help it. I have to go there. It’s my nature. It’s my father’s nature, too..."
There’s an old rule among directors that you see a film in its totality about four times. The first is when you really decide you love the story and you...
Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I always said, ‘This isn’t satire, it’s sheer reportage.’
Robert Graysmith knew he was a guy on the sidelines of this story. He wanted to be a part of it and he made himself a part of it. He was doing it on his...
An appreciation of the extensive and incredibly beautiful career of artist Denys Cowan.
With today marking 40 years of Cronenberg's iconic "Scanners", essayist Kim Winters takes a look at how it has aged in a contemporary digital atmosphere.
With 2020 coming to a close, it's time to take a look back on this year and pay homage to the incredible creators we've lost along the way.
Writer and critic Sean Witzke discusses the themes of fascism, sexuality, and desire in Bernardo Bertolucci’s iconic 1970 film *The Conformist*
The night of November 2nd, 1998. The El Cadiz Apartments, Los Angeles. Thief-turned-writer Eddie Little is worried sick; he’s convinced he can hear a ...
“Believe Everything Except Your Eyes.” This arguably meaningless phrase was one of five similarly-themed taglines concocted to promote Brian De Palma’s ...
Sven Mikulec looks at the history and legacy of Alan Parker's 'Angel Heart'
Fractured narrative, skewed perception, compressed timelines—director/writer Christopher Nolan won’t lead his audience in a straight line…
With Halloween just around the corner, NeoText explores the versatility, humor, and perfectly grotesque visuals of British horror comics.
Confidently riding the waves generated by his highly successful satirical black comedy M*A*S*H, Robert Altman easily secured a directing job…
The interaction between and among human beings is the only story worth telling.
An essay celebration of renowned sci-fi artist Richard Powers and the surrealist wonder of the fFlar universe.
An interview and career retrospective with acclaimed storyteller and artist Dave McKean.
He paints with people, Jake Gyllenhaal said of David Fincher after the two had worked together on Zodiac. “It’s tough…
Carol Reed’s 'The Third Man' might just be as visually stimulating as classic films get….
Published in January 1973, George V. Higgins’ crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was well received by critics and the public, featuring a story ...
In 1972 a neophyte Spanish media company created a rare platform for artists to explore classic genre imagery with a sophisticated cinematic sensibility.
While he was teaching screenwriting at the UCLA Film School, American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader got a character idea during one of his...
Long-time independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara was never one to pander to the expectations of either critics...
During his film career that lasted from 1964 to 1985, Italian filmmaker Fernando Di Leo worked as a director...
The 1980s were an intense decade for Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan. He had made his directorial debut in 1982...
English director, screenwriter and composer Mike Figgis made his directorial debut in 1988 with Stormy...
Many a movie has been based on prolific writer Stephen King's works of fiction. And while quite a few of...
December 5th, 2020 will mark the 40th anniversary of a lavish space opera hitting US theaters and subsequently...
American director and screenwriter Brian de Palma, a leading member of the New Hollywood movement that lasted...
Don Siegal's follow up to *Dirty Harry*, an adaptation of John C. Reese's *The Looters,* and a masterclass in character-driven storytelling
Filmmaker Carol Reed, hailed as one of the greatest U.K. directors, became famous in the late 1930s and 1940s with motion pictures such as Night Train ...
A look into the history behind lesbian and bisexual themes in mid-century pulp fiction paperbacks.
Howard Chaykin digs into the deep-seeded influences that fuel Scott Phillips' suburban noir stories.
Cinematographer Karim Hussain csc's appreciation of the Louma Crane