Articles

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE: Pushing The Yellow Bus 20 Years Later

Introduction It’s hard to overstate the enormous impact that Little Miss Sunshine had when the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. It...

THE END OF OAK STREET Review: A Summer Movie From Another Time

Introduction From the moment the soundtrack starts in David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, I felt a certain sense of nostalgia. This movie...

QUENTIN TARANTINO: What’s Next For One Of Hollywood’s Greatest Directors?

Introduction Almost 35 years into his career, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most distinctive and influential filmmakers of the modern era. Emerging from the...

The Making of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954)

Introduction Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) introduced the last of the iconic Universal Monsters, the Gill-Man. This article will discuss the origins of this...

BAD CANDY: A Review Of Scott B. Hansen’s New Horror Anthology

Cinema Scholars presents a review of the new horror anthology Bad Candy, directed by Scott B. Hansen and starring Zack Galligan, Corey Taylor, and...

Bond Girls: A Scholars’ Spotlight (Part 2)

This is Part 2 in a Scholars' Spotlight series of articles that are biographies of the ladies, or "Bond Girls" that appeared throughout the...

LOST: A Reopening Of The Eye – Part II

Introduction Last week, Cinema Scholars explored the unique and unusual way that the 2004 ABC primetime drama LOST came to be. From network executive Lloyd Braun's vision...

PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND – A Review Of Nic Cage’s Latest Action Film

Returning to the unhinged film persona he has grown into for the last decade, Nicolas Cage stars in Prisoners of the Ghostland. Directed by...