The World According To Garp: Not What It Used To Be
A childhood favorite I should have left alone.
Mind Control Double Feature #101: Little Hood Riding Red
Let’s pretend Little Red Riding Hood was born today and her mom was Courtney Love.
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul – A Weird Name For A Great Movie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the more colorful directors in movie history. To put it mildly. To put it another way, he was a madman.
Three and a Half Godzillas – Part 3: The Joyless 2014 Version
On the bright side, following this film’s destruction, you might be able to afford an apartment on Russian Hill.
The Knick S01E02: Mr. Paris Shoes
“She could have been eaten by a whale? Or punched out by Kid McCoy?”
Calvary Makes You Cross
Calvary pokes your conscience with a stick to see if it’ll twitch. Depending on the answer, you might laugh or get cross. Or both.
Blue Ruin: A Man, A Car, And Lots of Dead People
The question Blue Ruin brought to mind was something nebulous about what makes a movie “good.” Because, on the one hand, Blue Ruin is in many ways a very good movie. On the other, it’s not really about anything other than being a good movie.
Brain Food #1: Romero’s Night of the Living Dead
Let the zombie banquet begin!
Memories Of Robin Williams
Robin Williams? I remember Robin Williams…
The Knick: Method, Madness, and Bloody Hell
Nothing an injection of medicinal cocaine can’t fix.
To Lauren Bacall I Engrave All
I’d like to tell you about who she was and what she meant to me, but I can’t. She was Lauren Bacall.
Robin Williams; Laughing and Crying
And the fool replied, “I don’t know. I only knew that you were thirsty.”
Three and A Half Godzillas – Part 2: The Reviled 1998 Version
Watching the deservedly maligned 1998 Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin “reimagining” of Godzilla for a second time was not easy. I saw it in the theater when it opened and thought it was crap then. I was not alone.
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue Is Some Damn Fine TV
A master director makes a brilliant TV show. And I’m not talking about Soderbergh and The Knick.