While in some ways time has not been kind to The Game and its dated technology, it is worth a look back.

People weren’t ready for Fincher.

Five years is an eternity in the life of a film. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these movies play NOW!” Not five years ago, but how have they aged in our memories. While some acclaimed films of 2010 remain strong on our list, some critically-lauded ones didn’t …

Let’s face it, most biopics suck. They are the quintessential zombie movie, famous actors of today dressed up like famous personages of the past, often going through the motions or doing ghastly impressions. These waxwork monstrosities often rack it up come the big awards ceremonies. We’re here to prove that there are some biopics that are still worth their salt. …

Measured against its competition at the time, no one could have been faulted for failing to predict that Seven would become the most successful American crime film of 1995. So much about it seemed redundant: it was about the meticulous hunt for a brilliant serial killer (The Silence of the Lambs was still rich in cultural currency), it featured the …

[xrr rating=3.0/5]It is impossible to truly evaluate Gone Girl without spoilers, so if you haven’t read Gillian Flynn’s book or seen the film, consider this a fair warning. Fans of Flynn’s novel will know that Gone Girl is a twisty thriller, one that is laid out in the dueling voices of its lead characters, a married couple, both unreliable narrators. …

When Fight Club came out in 1999, it blew my goddamn mind. I was a freshman psych major, a former karate obsessive and someone who was disenchanted with the idea that capitalist phonies who’d never even read Bukowski were out there making bank while I didn’t even have a car. In other words, I was a stupid kid, and therefore …

Five years is an eternity in the life of a film. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these movies play NOW!” Not five years ago, but how have they aged in our memories. While some acclaimed films of ’07 remain strong on our list, some critically-lauded ones didn’t …

[xrr rating=4.75/5]We live in the Information Age, and David Fincher has become its prophet. Increasingly, his protagonists engage foremost in pursuing and processing information, but even before that, his stylistic signature displayed a hyperawareness of information, reveling in virtuoso techniques and trick shots that lay out data with extreme precision. Even a deceptively minor film like Panic Room is notable …

I don’t how other critics do it- make definitive top 10 lists of a year. We’re halfway through December and I cannot claim I’ve seen nearly all the 2010 movies I had hoped to watch. In fact, I still have screenings of Somewhere and True Grit this week. Rather than compile a disingenuous top 10, instead we are sharing some …