The southwest American desert. A blue sky. A pair of pants, fluttering to earth. So begins Breaking Bad’s pilot episode, and what an episode. Just shy of an hour, and it lays out a roadmap for everything that follows.
Steven Spielberg is a peculiar figure in the history of movie directors. He started out as a well-reviewed wunderkind, was then castigated by critics for years as an unserious director […]
I like these movies much more than I thought I did. They’re about time, and time is interesting. It does things to people. We can’t help but make choices as […]
If you had the pleasure, or lack thereof, of growing up in the ‘80s, or otherwise living through it in any conscious way, you might have noticed the greed, the […]
There are times, usually every summer movie season, right about now, when one begins to lose hope for the future of film, when one’s brain begins to feel as if […]
It’s Memorial Day Weekend, folks, and movie-wise you know what that means: nothing but the biggest, loudest, most astrogivastantical epics ever conceived of by humankind will be on display at […]
Taking a break last night from another typically explodey summer of billion dollar Hollywood spectaculars (that’s what the kids are calling movies today, right? “Spectaculars”? I try to keep up […]
Ben Wheatley has made three movies prior to this one, Down Terrace, which I haven’t seen, Kill List, a reasonably compelling story of two hit men that gets weirder and […]
Way back when in that magical summer of ’82 the second Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan, opened. It was something of a reboot, despite that word not being […]
The big city. The simmering fleshpot. The lights, the people, the noise, the great towering cloudscratching skyscrapers! Its lure is age-old. As soon as there were cities, there were kids […]
Great news, everyone, the kind of news that keeps us going in these hard times, the kind that gets our juices flowing, the kind that promises that Jesus himself will […]
I grew up in the ‘80s. Back then, nerds were not cool. They were nerds. If you read comic books, you were not cool. If you could explain at length, […]
Ah, fate! Inevitable, implacable, industrious, insidious, and many other words that begin with i, it comes for us when we least expect it, grabs us by the throat, and demands […]
It’s a bad sign chilling here in lovely Barcelona in the lobby of the Hotel Colon (which I’m told has a different meaning in Spanish, thank heavens), thinking about the […]