The career of M. Night Shyamalan has had its ups and downs over the years. After being anointed the next Spielberg following the massive success of “The Sixth Sense,” “Unbreakable,” and “Signs” in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, the filmmaker faltered with middling efforts, “The Village” and “The Happening,” before completely squandering any goodwill […]
M.Night Shyamalan
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Film Review: “The Visit”
M. Night Shyamalan has had a rough go of it in recent years,
but it wasn’t always this way.
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“After Earth”
Despite the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Evil Empire, the empty fears about Y2K, the uneventful coming and going of the millennium, the film industry regards the future with a love for both panic and profit. For some decades now, the post-apocalyptic vision has dominated science fiction movies, and when Hollywood […]
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Circles in the corn, field of nightmares
Back in the 1950s, the
heyday of the alien invasion flick, it really meant something when those
saucers hovered over great cities, zapping buildings and disintegrating people
with their death rays, and uniting the world in opposition to defeat the
otherwise superior beings from outer space, who of course filled in for the Red
Menace.
