Articles Tagged postmodernism

REVIEW: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Forget Tarantino! When it comes to postmodernism, Edgar Wright is the true prince of pastiche. As director of the television series Spaced (1999-2001) and the feature films Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007), Wright has pursued projects that demonstrate a particular passion for popular culture. Where others have mined the past in […]

REVIEW: JCVD

The opening sequence of JCVD is an exercise in filmmaking smarts. In a single long take, a battle ready Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks, punches, dodges and weaves, stabs and shoots his way through a horde of armed assailants, while Curtis Mayfield’s lyrics for ‘Hard Time’ (‘…I played the part I feel they want of me’) […]

FEATURE: Tarantino Comes of Age

Sixteen years and five films after the release of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino is finally beginning to prove that as a filmmaker he’s no mere fly-by-night trend hopper or one-trick pop-culture pony. If anything, with the release of his latest film Death Proof, the man once credited with bringing hyper-violence back into Hollywood, has begun […]