Joshua Speiser

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It’s alive! The yuppies … not so much

Pack the Dramamine, kids, because Cloverfield—the newest creation from Lost/Alias wunderkind J.J. Abrams—is a visceral thrill ride with a few new twists on the classic monster-destroys-New York trope.

By January 24, 2008

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: The nightmare that keeps on giving

Director Tim Burton delivers a visionary new nightmare before Christmas with his macabre adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical Sweeney Todd. As the haunted pipe organ and bloody opening credits make abundantly clear, this gory film, laced with coal-black humor, is not your average musical.

By December 6, 2007

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No Country for Old Men

Joel and Ethan Coen’s brutally masterful new film, No Country for Old Men, is an unnerving piece of filmmaking as harsh and unforgiving as the parched Texas landscape where the story unfolds.

By November 29, 2007