Red – Thank God I’m Unemployable
As I ponder what to do during my retirement, it often involves the usual sitting on a porch, yelling at kids to get off my…
Reviews
Winter’s Bone — A Narrative on Survival
Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, and Julianne Moore have already established themselves as Best Actress contenders, but we can now add Jennifer Lawrence to the race…
The Kids Are All Right – Jesus on Toast
Each year, a handful of people report that they have seen a vision of either the Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ. These apparitions take a…
Darkon – There Were No Cameras in Medieval Times, Therefore…
In the third act of the Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott vehicle, Role Models, Danny and Wheeler (Rudd and Scott) accompany Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) to…
Howl — The Line Between Freedom and Aquiescence
I’ve seen the entertainers of my generation, inebriated, intoxicated, plastered on multiple magazine covers, who sweat illicit substance; who marry for publicity; who annul to…
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — Perhaps You Could Have This Record for a Few Quarters More
In 1982, a mustachioed, mulletted kid set the high-score record on one of the Golden Age of Arcade Games’ Donkey Kong; in addition, this prestidigitation…
The Social Network — A Well-Executed Exercise in Cynicism
My mailbox purged forth two Netflix DVDs a bill and a statement as I opened it. Inside, the gag reflex for this mailus vomitus was…
True Grit — The Coen Brothers Might Just Have a Career Ahead of Them
“You must pay for everything in this world, one way or another. There is nothing free except for the grace of God.” So Mattie Ross…
Tron: Legacy — Man and Machine Love Won’t Produce Any Offspring, Will It?
Two of my guilty pleasures are Under Siege and The Rock, which might be the only Nicolas Cage movie that doesn’t make bile creep up…
Grizzly Man — Harmony is an Ideology that Leads to Starvation
About six months ago, I sat in The Penny Farthing, a bar in the East Village of Manhattan, and four of us at the table…