Brendan Hodges

Oct 16, 2024 | rogerebert.com | Brendan Hodges

"Welcome to Peeping Toms, New York's newest and grooviest game!" - Brian De Palma, "Sisters""You know your dick was hard the entire time," Quentin Tarantino once accused of Stanley Kubrick. It was in response to how Kubrick maintained that " A Clockwork Orange" was a powerful statement of anti-violence and took no pleasure in its graphic acts of mayhem and assault. For Tarantino-among the most rabid Brian De Palma superfans-that is pure hypocrisy.

Jul 19, 2024 | rogerebert.com | Brendan Hodges

"Seven Samurai" contains dozens, possibly hundreds, of cinematic techniques that revolutionized how movies tell their stories. To summarize each of them is a Sisyphean task; in trying to list them all, you would only find another. I'll do my best. To start, Kurosawa gave the kiss of life to outdated samurai archetypes, giving them a soul.

Dec 8, 2023 | inverse.com | Brendan Hodges

The opening minutes of Future Boy Conan, Hayao Miyazaki’s’ classic but seldom-seen 1978 directorial debut, is a prophetic vision of our eventual self-destruction. Sieged by a future war and post-nuclear weapons of mass destruction, humanity has doomed itself; cyberpunk mega-cities crumble, populations are wiped away, the climate withers, and the waters rise.

Aug 31, 2023 | brightwalldarkroom.com | Brendan Hodges |Jason Christian |Frank Falisi |Carrie Courogen

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Mar 18, 2023 | polygon.com | Brendan Hodges

Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO The HBO show missed a crucial element of the game’s success By Mar 18, 2023, 1:00pm EDT The Last of Us has been widely celebrated not only as the “best video game adaptation of all time,” but also as the ostensibly simplest to jump from pixel to picture. And in many ways, HBO’s The Last of Us earned that reputation.