Shark Cents: Deep Blue Sea’s Place in the Value of Warner Bros. Discovery

|Ben Jarman| Memories of Deep Blue Sea’s initial release still stick with me even though I never went to see it. I remember the smart shark gimmick and Samuel L. Jackson yelling, “Just what the hell did you do to those sharks!” in the trailer. I also remember… Continue reading

They Live in the Twin Cities

John Nada (Roddy Piper), a white adult man with a dark blonde mullet hair cut, wearing a plaid short, is looking up from his dark sunglasses. He is standing in front of a news stand.

|Lucas Vonasek| John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) begins bleakly. Train horns moan as they clatter along the rails, surveillance helicopters chop through the air above in staccato, and smog drapes a city dominated by monolithic buildings clad with corporate logos. These structures… Continue reading

The Badlands of Downtown LA

Emilio Estevez’s character “Otto” takes a stroll through the chaotic nightmare of Downtown Los Angeles”

|Brogan Earney| If you’re like me and you grew up in Minnesota in the 90s or early 2000s, then we can all agree that Gordon Bombay was the shit. I first saw the Mighty Ducks films when I was 6 years old, and I quickly latched onto the character and looked up to his methodology, and I wasn’t even a hockey player. Over time, I realized that… Continue reading

Michael Clayton and Tony Gilroy’s American Conscience

A cold, lit up jumble of New York skyscrapers at night, shot from overhead, just close enough to get a hint of the activity that populates the office behind each window.

|Ryan Sanderson| Michael Clayton plays in glorious 35mm at the Trylon Cinema from Sunday, March 1st, through Tuesday, March 3rd. For tickets, showtimes, and other series information, visit trylon.org. “You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire, you build egos the size… Continue reading