Assaulting Wall Street Pour la Beauté du Geste Celluloid Liberation Front July 2013 Feature Articles “I don’t initiate violence, I retaliate.” –Chuck Norris Plot Synopsis (major spoiler alert): Jim (Dominic Purcell) is the kind of working class dude New York used to be inhabited by before his ilk was driven ...
Beyond Bruce Lee: Or How Paul Bowman Never Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Movies Kyle Barrowman June 2013 Book Reviews At the risk of crying wolf, it seems accurate to characterize academic film studies as being more than simply interdisciplinary, as more perilously resembling a discipline in the throes of schizophrenia. With t...
Colombiana: Europa Corp and the Ambiguous Geopolitics of the Action Movie David Martin-Jones March 2012 Feature Articles The films made and distributed by Luc Besson’s company are, too often, dismissed by critics. Yet they may, argues David Martin-Jones, provide interesting insights into understanding global cinema.