Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 3, Episodes 5-7
“I have made a series of very bad decisions.”
12 Years a Slave: Spoiler Alert
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. […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 3, Episodes 1-4
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.
Lookin’ to Get Out: What Hal Ashby Left Behind
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 […]
Mind Control Double Feature #51: In Which Barbara Stanwyck Uses What She’s Got To Get What She Wants
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.
Pacific Rim vs. Invasion of Astro-Monster
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!
10 Awesome Things About Pacific Rim
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 Revisited: Season 2, Episodes 11-13
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.
Pacific Rim: Why Movie Marketing Matters
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 […]
21 Jump Street: Actually Pretty Funny
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 […]
Breaking Bad Revisited: Season 2, Episodes 8-10
“All the lies. I can’t even keep them straight in my head anymore.”
Mind Control Double Feature #50: True Romance
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 […]
White House Down vs A Block of Wood with a Nail in It
And the crowd goes wild! In this corner, costing at least $150 million dollars, staring Chinook Tantrum and Jaime “not quite XXX” Foxx, it’s….. WHITE HOUSE DOWN!!!!! Look at that bruiser! Director […]
Precious Few Words On Sam Raimi’s Crimewave
I now count myself among the small number of people who have seen Sam Raimi’s second film, Crimewave (’85), the follow-up to his surprise success Evil Dead, written with Joel […]