I’ll give this to Lars von Trier: his movies are not ordinary movies. Clearly, this is the only reason I continue, now and again, to watch them, because in most every other respect they are wretched.
For your birthday, I give you death. One long, slow, drawn out death. Or two, actually. One for me, and one for you — and sure, whomever else wants death […]
“I have made a series of very bad decisions.”
In light of what I’ve been saying lately about movie marketing and why it matters, I bring your attention to this newly released trailer for Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave. […]
Walt has thrown into motion the gears of a vast machine, one he has no control over, and, as the season begins, one he has no knowledge of having kicked into action.
Hal Ashby was an immense, intuitive talent who drew indelible lines across the throat of our culture. He’s one of my favorite directors, but his career was brief. He left […]
Are you a woman? Do you want to make a man do your bidding? There’s one sure-fire, time-tested method for success. Spread your legs for him. Or, better yet—don’t spread your legs for him.
Action! Terror! Horror! Monster fight! Yes, my friends, it’s the film battle we’ve all been waiting for, in which we pit monsters fighting monsters against monsters fighting robots!
If there’s one thing I really don’t want to do, it’s write another long post about how some summer movie is completely incoherent and stark naked when stripped of its endless […]
Breaking Bad is a dark, evil show, and these last three episodes epitomize it. Nobody gets off easy. Walt suffers. Everyone who knows Walt suffers. Everyone who so much as meets him suffers.
There has been a lot said lately about the state of modern cinema. Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and even Gore Verbinski have come out, heads all scratchy, to wonder […]
I never saw the television show 21 Jump Street. Not even once. But I did see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and I really liked it. And the trailer for the […]
“All the lies. I can’t even keep them straight in my head anymore.”
Oh l’amour! Usually when I say that, I’m referring to noted author of Westerns, Louis L’Amour, and chiding him for his contribution to the film Hondo, but this time… no. This […]