In Praise of Bad Movies
Bad movies get a bad rap. It’s said they’re incompetent, meaningless, embarassing, written in a day by a lone monkey on a single typewriter, directed by escaped mental patients, acted […]
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Brain Changing Movies
Movies ate my brain! They’ve eaten yours, too. They are insidious and powerful, they crawl into your head through your eyes and ears, spin their nests out of sparking ganglia […]
Death By Backstory
I’ve been thinking about backstory, thanks to the Evil One’s Spiderman post, in which he points out what should be to all sentient beings blindingly obvious, that no one on […]
The Color of A Scene
In the brilliant ’61 melodrama The Hustler, Paul Newman plays Fast Eddie Felson, basically a punk kid looking to make it big by playing and beating Minnesota Fats at straight […]
Building A Better Prometheus
What the hell, Prometheus? Why won’t you get out of my brain already? Normally when I see a big, dumb, special effects laden summer shitstorm, I forget about it in […]