The trick at the center of the film, of course, is that its message doesn’t seem subversive or challenging at all.

John Nada (Piper) is grouchy because ever since he arrived in Los Angeles from Colorado, there's been nothing but trouble. People are rude, he lives on a campsi

(Originally published in Rocky Mountain Bullhorn) They Live, John Carpenter’s paranoia-drenched 1988 thriller about corrupt capitalist extraterrestrials hoodwinking humans via mind-control, may be the loopiest, and coolest, entry in the director’s canon. A vagabond construction worker (pro wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy...

Restorations of The Fog, Escape from New York, Prince of Darkness and They Live show the makings of a movie maestro

John Carpenter's 'They Live' did more than give us sci-fi/horror pulp — it gave us the last word on the Reagan era.

Read the Empire Movie review of They Live. A bizarre, intriguing combination of political allegory and old-fashioned paranoid...

Welcome to “Second Glance,” a bi-weekly column that spotlights an older film of note (thanks to an anniversary, a connection to a new release, or new disc or streaming availability) that was not as commercially or critically successful as it…