Author Shane Cudney

There is something that surrounds us, an agreeable warmth that both intoxicates and confuses; a sheath of something that means to do evil   Marina van Schendel   While it's true that Borgman...

I don't know if what is happening is fair, but it's the closest thing to justice I can think of.    - Martin         In the opening scene of The Killing of a Sacred Deer...

Like Christopher Nolan before him, UK born James Griffiths cut his cinematic teeth on short films.  Room 8 (2014) is an award winning short that displays his emerging brilliance the way Doodlebug (1997)...

I’ve been a fan of Darren Aronofsky since the release of his debut (feature) film, Pi, in 1998.  I was so struck by its stark minimalism, black and white photography, and provocative content – not to...

Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019) has been lovingly re-edited and beautifully restored to its former glory.  With a 4K restoration from the original negative and remastered sound, the...

Frank Perry’s The Swimmer (1968) is a very strange little film, at least on the surface of things. I mean, what's more strange than a guy swimming home across the county through the backyard pools of...

Max Cohen is a mathematics and technology whiz, holed up in his small Chinatown apartment obsessed with finding the underlying numerical pattern he believes the global stock market rests on.  Max’s...

Like Frank Perry’s The Swimmer (1968), Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995) is a very strange, haunting, even hallucinatory film, both of which have been dismissed for a host of similar, not so...

"Deep focus" is a technique used in cinematography that brings the entire frame into focus. If a close-up shot allows us to see one thing, deep focus opens the field of view allowing us to see multiple things...

By Shane Cudney   Craig Zahler's latest film, Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017), is, among other things, a testosterone infused middle finger of defiance raised to an estrogen dominant, politically...