Criticisms of Films, Past and Present: Issue 1, Spring 2017

This issue includes five film reviews from Cinematic Codes Review's regular contributor, Samantha Lauer, which are illustrated with stills. There is also a scholarly film review of Ben-Hur from Antonio Sanna. One of the authors that previously published two poetry books with Anaphora, Jason Holt, made a critical essay contribution, with a study of Rocky IV's training montage. Nichole DeWall, an associate professor of English at McKendree University, writes about two re-interpretations of two of William Shakespeare's plays. And Brian Rowe writes about the intended victim in John Carpenter's 1978 horror film, Halloween.