On Film

Gareth Higgins 4-01-2010

It’s the end of the world for Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli, one of the legion of recent films (including one actually titled Legion) that suggest that while the earth ma

Gareth Higgins 3-01-2010

There's evidence that popular cinema is taking real life seriously.

Gareth Higgins 2-01-2010

Cormac McCarthy’s novels are the Ecclesiastes of postmodern American literature—finely wrought chunks of sparseness in which the protagonists struggle to survive a violent or deadening

Gareth Higgins 1-01-2010

Another look at Gone with the Wind.

Gareth Higgins 12-01-2009
Reexamining violence in entertainment.
Gareth Higgins 9-01-2009

WE’RE IN A national emergency, and it’s not swine flu.

Gareth Higgins 8-01-2009

THE UNITED STATES as envisaged in cinema is often a fight club, a place where there are three kinds of people—the thieves who milk the system, the cops who try to catch them, and the rest of

Gareth Higgins 7-01-2009

Now that most filmed records of human life are made by amateurs—the growth of YouTube and other forms of uploading moving images is the most influential recent development in cinema—we