Tag: raynelson

Politics in genre cinema is nothing new. Long before John Carpenter took on Reagan with They Live, or Don Siegel took on the communists (or the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, depending on how you interepret the film) with...

"I have come here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum."John Carpenter's They Live is probably my favorite of his post-Escape From New York, late '80s- early '90s filmography. A very obvious anti-Reagan...

Proving that just about the entire library of John Carpenter directed films is up for being remade in this decade (The Thing is coming, albeit Escape from New York has been in development hell for years,) Universal has tapped Let...