by Brinley Zoller | Dec 27, 2018 | Criticism, Left
For the last 45 years every Labor Day weekend, the mountain village of Telluride triples in size. Waves of passionate cinephiles flood the town for a four-day experience and to embark on a movie viewing journey, spending entire days in flickering dark rooms. The...
by Morghan Lemmenes | Dec 17, 2018 | Issues, Left
Hello and welcome to another issue of POVwinona! In a prior issue our contributors looked back at the roots of the action-adventure genre, and in this issue our writers are examining how a variety of sub-genres connect to other films in the genre and generate social...
by Noah Mruz | Dec 17, 2018 | Criticism, Left
George Miller’s 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max 2 showcases a highly-stylized world where the cars and the people are equally as over the top. The film follows antihero Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) as he reluctantly helps a group of...
by McKenna Scherer | Dec 17, 2018 | Criticism, Left
A seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner, James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens was everything people wanted and more following 1979’s Alien. Launching the standard for all sequels far above what was typically expected, the action-and-alien-focused sequel came at a...
by Taylor Nasinec | Dec 17, 2018 | Criticism, Left
Based on the graphic novel The Coldest City, Atomic Blonde is the 2017 espionage thriller with a thick spread of double agents and betrayal during the week prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Directed by the John Wick co-director, David Leitch, his first solo...
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