Dive into the archives.
- Two Must-See Movies; Also: On the Lot recap
I don’t think there are very many people for whom news that Away from Her is a stellar, stellar debut feature is, well… news. But for those of you haven’t seen it yet, please do: it is a near-perfect evocation of life slowly wasting away and the heartbreak of forgetting. Framed in a complex, elliptical [...]
- Enter the Pain (On the Lot - Episode 3)
Holy crap. You know how I’ve been wanting to see these guys’ films? Okay, we can stop that now - I never want to see a film by nearly any of these people ever again.
This show is really bad, and the only thing worse than the show itself are the actual films these guys are [...]
- A Failure to Communicate (On The Lot - Episode Two)
Episode Two of TV’s latest disaster begins with an unanswerable question: who’s a more obnoxious ass? Yep, get your micrometers out, guys - Jeff and Marty are gonna compare sizes while they continue bickering over their wretched short film. It’s pure machismo brain-farts, really - some nonsense about an assassin and a plan to kill [...]
- Welcome to the Hack Show (On The Lot - Episode One)
So in the interest of making sure I have at least one regular feature on this blog, I’ve decided to watch and comment on new episodes of On the Lot, the new Fox reality program produced by Mark Burnett (Survivor) and Steven Spielberg (1941). On the Lot is an attempt at making a reality competition [...]
- Well played, dudes.
But what the hell is this cover?
- Let’s Read!
Remember Reading Rainbow, where Kunta Kinte/Geordi La Forge told us about how awesome reading was? I don’t, because I thought that show was The Worst Shit Ever. Well, we’re going to do the same thing, only with the Internet. Let’s talk about what we’ve been reading lately, because I’m about to finish reading Cormac McCarthy’s [...]
- Proud Flesh - Some Progress
So I’m working on Proud Flesh right now. It’s going pretty okay - I’m in this weird transition period between acts right now that involves some rather consequential interactions between my two main characters - Iris, the veterinarian, and Dorothy, a gardener. These scenes are probably the most critical scenes in the script, and though [...]
- Day Night Day Night.
This is one of those movies that’s definitely important enough for me to write about.
As I’ve been yammering on about incoherently for three quarters of a year now, I’m a huge fan of Day Night Day Night, Julia Loktev’s feature debut, which I saw at the Telluride Film Festival last September and which is now [...]
- Dereliction of Duty
I admit it. I’ve been lazy.
But. Also. I have been working on this site - see, the end of my first year is coming up, and I’ve been thinking a lot about switching out design schemes a bit. And changing up my content a lot. Now that I’m writing for Reverse Shot on a semi-regular [...]
- Derby Day.
So, as I’ve made vague allusion to in some of my past posts, I’m currently working on the first draft of the screenplay for Proud Flesh, an elegaic horror film (to give you some idea of what I mean by this, I recently rewatched Picnic at Hanging Rock and L’Avventura, neither of which could be [...]
