Joseph Kahn

It's no secret that after MTV began broadcasting in 1981, music videos quickly became a breeding ground for an entire generation of filmmakers. Read More

Films with time-traveling bears tend to defy easy description. Read More

Undoubtedly the idea was to bring out the long-delayed horror-comedy "Detention," starring Josh Hutcherson, after the profile-raising release of "The Hunger Games" last month, but there almost certainly was also a significant amount of email back-and-forth from Hutcherson's management team with other studio folk about how to downplay its theatrical unspooling, and kind of dump the body from a slowly moving van, without hoping too many people notice. Read More

David and Adam chat with director Joseph Kahn about the state of film criticism, the racial diversity of genre movies, and building the world of Detention. Read More

After a horror movie-inspired serial killer slashes someone on their campus, a group of suspect high school seniors (Hutcherson, Caswell) are put into detention during prom night. Read More

A s much as I disliked watching "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," the fear I felt as the closing credits rolled was even worse. Read More

"It's just high school. It's not the end of the world."Read More

The demented, hyperactive dark comedy Detention , by music-video veteran and Torque auteur Joseph Kahn, begins as a bald-faced Scream knock-off, but by the time it races to a surprisingly satisfying conclusion, it's nakedly appropriated bits and pieces from just about every beloved Gen-X cult movie of the past 30 years—including, but not limited to, Back To The Future , Donnie Darko , The Fly , Southland Tales , The Breakfast Club , Juno , and She's All That. It's as if Kahn, who also co-wrote the overstuffed screenplay, rifled through his DVD collection one coked-up evening, took everything he loved about his favorite movies, and discarded everything else—primarily coherence, character development, subtlety, and soul. Read More

18 new independent productions and three studio works arrive simultaneously in local theaters. Read More