Villains

The Ultimate Villain Creates the Ultimate Hero

By Chris Mooney

November 11, 2020

I grew up on sci-fi films during the eighties and early nineties, and nine times out of ten the villains sucked. Let me be clear: I’m talking about human villains, not the iconic creatures and robots spawned during that time period like the terrifying xenomorphs from the first two Alien movies, or the T-800 and…

SXSW: Villains (2019)

By Abe Friedtanzer

March 12, 2019

When petty thieves are the good guys in a movie, it can be expected that things are going to get dark. Villains, which premiered this past weekend at the South by Southwest Film Festival in the Narrative Spotlight category, approaches its protagonists with varying degrees of ethics, or lack thereof, from an inherently comedic perspective.…