Shawn Bourdo

Following the Scooby-Doo gang is a patient, often frustrating process of starts and stops and reboots. There are currently two ...

I was born in 1967. And in the tradition of all petulant teenagers – I grew to have disdain for ...

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors Trilogy is a series of three films that were released in 1993 and 1994. ...

Can one film ruin a genre? I guess you can look at it from two angles. Did Titanic ruin the ...

The A.E.W. Mason classic adventure book The Four Feathers (1902) has been adapted into at least seven films directly. The ...

When you further categorize the films that I love the most, you’ll find that the majority of them speak to ...

With new releases from The Criterion Collection, the ones I look forward to the most aren’t always the major works ...

Warner Archive has released the original made-for-TV film Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark. With the Guillermo Del Toro remake ...

On July 19th, First Run Features releases a new documentary on “To Kill A Mockingbird” on DVD. The timing is ...

In Mike Leigh’s 1993 UK film, Naked, I don’t think a main character has turned the audience against him quicker ...

The start of any series of films is problematic at best. If you’re Star Trek – you’re seeking to recapture ...

I don’t know the exact definition of a “black moon” just as I’m not exactly clear on the definition of ...

I’ve always loved the middle school and high school genre of films. There’s a magic in those pre-teen and early ...

When we last saw Charlie Chaplin in 1936 at the end of Modern Times, The Tramp and his muse, “the ...

The Criterion Collection is on a serious roll this Spring. I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing White Material (a superb ...

The recent Blu-ray release of Betty Blue from Cinema Libre Studios as part of their The Jean-Jacques Beineix Collection takes ...

I recently was able to sit down and review White Material (2009) – a film directed by a female director ...

Claire Denis makes movies that almost seem commissioned by The Criterion Collection. The French filmmaker shoots in long, beautiful, quiet ...