Tyler and David discuss their favorite Joel Schumacher films. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron!
When Joel Schumacher took over directing The Lost Boys, he made some big changes to the initial idea including making the vampires older, making them sexier, and, by extension, making our heteronormative, boring suburban family protagonists the “others.” Read Alcy Leyva’s “30 Years...
The act of looking back, of examining the past, is a key feature of human consciousness and arguably the primary function of art itself–to render a narrative so we can understand ourselves. As we look back over an incredibly violent...
Let’s get one thing out of the way: St. Elmo’s Fire is not a good movie. It’s turgid, bloated, self-important and endlessly obnoxious, mostly because its characters are all some combination of those traits themselves. That said, it’s also a...
The Incredible Shrinking Woman feels akin to the post-new Hollywood era revisionists a la Paul Bartel, Joe Dante, and John Landis (who was originally attached to direct), but Joel Schumacher’s debut feature paired the enigmatic quirkiness of Lily Tomlin with...
The American Cinematheque, through their Egyptian and Aero Theatres, are showing a couple of knock-down bonafide classics on film this weekend – Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954, 35mm) shows Friday at the Egyptian in Hollywood, while David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962,...
