The big city. The simmering fleshpot. The lights, the people, the noise, the great towering cloudscratching skyscrapers! Its lure is age-old. As soon as there were cities, there were kids […]
I’ve got this Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians song going through my head. I don’t remember the last time I heard it so its resonance in my skull is mysterious. […]
Ah, fate! Inevitable, implacable, industrious, insidious, and many other words that begin with i, it comes for us when we least expect it, grabs us by the throat, and demands […]
I know, I know. You think you’re hardcore. You think you can eat 50 eggs. You think you can bust through invisible barriers with just a hurled bone. You probably think […]
You know what’s pretty damn amazing? That’s right: the Sun. Without the Sun, we’d all be well screwed. Frozen little peepcicles being devoured by giant bat-like monsters. Probably. I’m just […]
Back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, my great-grandpappy sat me on his lap and said, “Boy, there’s a time gone come in life, when you just plain ain’t […]
Do me a favor, okay? Just click play on the video below and keep reading. You don’t need to watch it. In fact, you shouldn’t watch it. There are no […]
Here at the bustling Stand By For Mind Control laboratories we often like our movies intense, weird, dark, slow, depressing, and liable to leave permanent psychological scars. We like movies […]
I am not an animal. I am a human being. I am a man! As defiantly romantic as the above quote sounds, it just isn’t true. Men (and women) are, […]
The trouble with Irish independence is the same trouble with independence sought by any peoples throughout history: you spend ten, twenty, a hundred, five hundred years murdering your oppressors, the […]
Do you know that feeling you get, when you’re peering in on a strange and mysterious culture of which you have little understanding, and then the police come and throw […]
If you’ve seen a lot of movies, and you have, you know all about being a hit man. All the tension, the stress, the long hours. It’s a tough job. […]
As the roof of Nakatomi Plaza explodes in a red fury, a man leaps off the edge. The fire hose he’s tied to arrests his plummet with a hard slam […]
The best way to learn how not to make a movie is, nine times out of ten, to watch a movie. Lessons will be readily evident. For as many great […]