Daniel Kraus

Innovation is a good thing to have in any film, but not when it exists as the heart and soul of the work. Famous for surreal comedies like Fargo and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers put so much energy into finding new ways to “wow” audiences, that their characters are often given the screenwriting shaft, […]

Writer David Mamet has done more for motion picture dialogue than any other person alive today. The primary lesson embedded within his start-and-stop staccato is that speech doesn’t always have to make sense. It’s the speaker’s intent which is important, and, as we all know, that intent is rarely communicated well in the heat of […]

Vampire flicks just seem rather bloodless these days. In the last several years, we’ve been treated to such unimpressive offerings as Wes Craven’s Vampires, The Little Vampire, Vampire in Brooklyn, Dusk to Dawn 2 and 3, and television shows like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. Was anyone out there clamoring for a Dracula 2000? For whatever […]

If it’s left up to you to rent the horror flicks for this year’s Halloween party, and you find yourself in the video aisle agonizing between the virtues of Halloween III: Season of the Witch and Yog, Monster from Space, then you might be in need of a little bit of assistance. Why waste your […]

When he’s not munching up newborn babies or spray-painting pentagrams on church altars, antichrist superstar Jerry Bruckheimer produces movies. Really awful movies. Movies that through sheer decibelic might and rapid-fire editing power strangle the last breaths of humanity out of our beaten, trembling bodies–movies like Con Air, Armageddon, and Gone in 60 Seconds. Trading in […]