Dive into the archives.
- Believe it or not…
…my five year plan doesn’t involve abnegating the duties of my blog for weeks at a time, despite what my regular posting habits have been like lately.
It’s Thanksgiving! (or at least it was recently) I have a lot to be thankful for. I won’t discuss it here, but suffice the ups and downs of this [...]
- Borat Attacked, Saved by House
Borat spanked by angry Yank
By EMILY SMITH
BORAT star Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego.
He approached the man and said: “I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I [...]
- Yay!
Well, they misattributed it on their main page, but it’s correctly attributed in the review itself…
Now properly attributed - my first contribution to Reverse Shot, my favorite film website. I’m so unbelievably psyched right now, friends!
- Thank You, Stanley Kubrick
Let’s air something out - the first filmmaker a burgeoning young film nerd ever falls for is Stanley Kubrick, and many outgrow him. It’s very easy to understand his early appeal - he trades in genre, has fairly obvious themes and a pointed stylization that’s easy for young observers to detect, lending his work to [...]
- Fun!
Three great Youtube clips…
Some lowly variety show director’s masterful camera movements reveal a greater talent for framing and drama than 99% of modern day directors. It doesn’t hurt that he’s filming the Four Tops doing the definitive rendition of one of the great pop songs of the ’60s.
- Wow. Good Job, Kinky Friedman. You’re an Ass.
Do you have any friends from Texas? Besides me? If so, you might’ve noticed the college kids of Texas banding together to vote for comedian/country singer Kinky Friedman in his bid for governor of Texas. A classic southern liberal with a few noxiously reactionary tendencies (his rhetoric on illegal immigrants is pukeworthy), Friedman overwhelmingly appealed [...]
- Oh one more thing…
The very night after I complain to a friend about a recent dip in quality from Reverse Blog, robbiefreeling puts up this genius evisceration of the trailer for A Good Year, a movie I’ve dreaded for months, and renews my faith. This trailer is terrible, and everyone involved with the picture should be ashamed of [...]
- Mondo Cane
So I finally saw it.
By ‘it,’ I of course mean Mondo Cane, one of the most influential documentaries ever produced. The legacy of Mondo Cane, which surveys the unique world we live in with bitter, cynical disenchantment, is the compilation documentary - everything from Faces of Death to America’s Funniest Home Videos stems from this [...]
