All posts tagged From the Vault
Battle Royale: “Would you kill your own best friend?”
A decade before Jennifer Lawrence took on the role of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, Tatsuya Fujiwara fought for his life as Shuya Nanahara in Battle Royale, a Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Released to critical domestic acclaim …
Fun, poppy Tank Girl yells, “Screw the patriarchy!”
In 1995, Tank Girl, an action flick based off a comic book series of the same name, received a lukewarm reception. But in the present-day climate of superhero
Cancelled Firefly holds its spacey, southern charm
Ten years ago, feminism’s favorite writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) created a sci-fi series about a crew of misfit space cowboys. Despite the series’ cancellation after
Miyazaki’s original debut began Studio Ghibli’s success
The Secret World of Arrietty, earned the top grossing film of 2010 at the Japanese box office and made over $100 million worldwide. Before its release on Feb.
The Starting Line continues to up the Fall Out Boy punx
Pop punk may have been tainted in recent years by the rise of Fall Out Boy and All Time Low, but don’t let those bands taint the genre
Dystopian film noir, Dark City, searches for truth
In 1927, Fritz Lang blended science fiction with fantasy in his silent epic Metropolis; in 1985, Terry Gilliam synthesized our minds with a maze of bureaucracy and air
Minimalist and hysterical, Dead Man reveals tragedy behind comedy
Cult classics don’t lend themselves for easy interpretation, and often they’re more style and cheek than plot. But, there’s always room for something that strikes a chord with
Murder Party is 80 minutes of death, gore and wit
Halloween brings with it a predilection for death, and soon children across the nation will be donning bloodied prosthetics and wielding plastic toys of butchery, which will not
Wet Hot American Summer isn’t quite as sexy as it sounds
In the early 2000s, the film industry was bustling with lousy parodies targeting niche-genre films. There was Not Another Teen Movie, for brat pack flicks and the Scary
From the Vault: Undeclared shows students how to survive undergrad
“Undeclared” may have dropped out of the FOX line-up before earning its degree, but it still earns the honor of another Judd Apatow show canceled after just one season.
