Writing

Blood, Milk, and Chrome
“MAX MAX: FURY ROAD is one long (and exquisitely crafted) chase scene, but there’s more than that going on under the hood.”

In and Out: How the Assembly Cut of ALIEN 3 Subverts the Endings of its Predecessors
The bleakest of the ALIEN films riffs on what came before, and in the process brings the franchise to a powerful conclusion.

Nicolas Roeg, 1928-2018, Will Continue to Haunt Us
Upon Nicolas Roeg’s death at the age of 90, I looked back at his film DON’T LOOK NOW and the effect it has had on me over the decades.

Artifice & Visual Story-Telling in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula
I wrote this for class back in 1998 and posted it to my Angelfire site. It’s rickety, but it holds up.