Kevin Smith Hates Movies
But he keeps on making them, and when critics savage them, claims he’s not a director. Go figure.
Category Archives: Active Observation
Art and Craft Boldly Forges Ahead
Landis, like a cross between James Carville and unspooled gauze, could not be more fascinating or authentic.
Night Moves: Jesse Eisenberg In A 2013 Indie Thriller You Forgot To See
To blow up that damned dam or let that dammed river be?
Indelible Images in A Place in the Sun and Zeroville
There is an image you cannot scrape from behind your eyes. It is a flash from a film, from something you dreamed, from a place unnamed and unknown.
Night Moves: Gene Hackman In A ‘70s Noir You Forgot Exists
The private eye flick turned into a bleak reflection of 1970s paranoia and loneliness.
I Saw the Devil and He Looks Like You
Look and squirm at the gorgeous grotesque.
Why The Fight Scene Matters In John Carpenter’s They Live
Oh, it’s long, this fight scene, but it is so much more.
The Drop Falls Flat
There’s a new film out, written by Dennis Lehane, novelist behind Mystic River and Shutter Island and Gone Baby Gone. It stars Tom Hardy and the late, great James Gandolfini, and Noomi Rapace. […]
The Dog: The True Story of Dog Day Afternoon
The life story of one-time famous bank robber, John Wojtowicz, played by Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon, is exactly as outrageous as you want it to be.
High School Confidential! Tomorrow Is A Drag, Pops, The Future Is A Flake
Turn your eyes inside and dig the vacuum.
Was 1988 the Greatest Year for Hollywood Comedies?
The mid-80’s were the Golden Age of movie comedies and we didn’t even realize it.
The Drowning Pool Flounders in the Deep End
The Drowning Pool has a lot going for it, but these elements just don’t float.
Unpopular Opinions About Good Morning Vietnam
They say drama is easy; that it’s comedy that’s hard. I think, to take it a step further, that it’s comedy disguised as drama that’s the hardest.
The Unknown Known And Knowing The Unknowable Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld may be the most impressive weasel in history, a mighty distinction indeed.