In a November 12, 2010 article from The New York Times, Laurie Goodstein reports “The rite of exorcism […] has largely fallen out of favor with the Roman Catholic Church in the United States”; however, “American bishops are holding a conference […] to prepare more priests and bishops to respond to the demand [of those seeking an […]
In 1996, Drew Barrymore was trapped in her home, voyeurized through her many floor to ceiling windows, eventually stabbed through the heart, gutted groin to sternum, and hung from a tree with her entrails on display for her mother and father, who happened to come home shortly after. Thus began a fresh imagining in the horror genre […]
Shuffling through the final papers of the semester, I encounter one that discusses Richard Wright’s Lawd Today! and the genius of how Jake’s quotidian routine is parasyntactically laminated over Lincoln’s birthday radio speeches and other media pronouncements that render his activities patently and ironically more meaningless by playing the myth over them, to which I stand back […]
Celebrities and performers are easy subjects for films because they personify qualities that many of us desire: affluence, success, and perhaps even fame. At the same time, their shellacked visage is often the creation of another, a doppelganger to themselves, a disguise to generate capital and cultivate a brand. As this visage sometimes cracks, the embryonic person […]
The original The Karate Kid is a synecdoche of the 80s; one that combines the underdog, underprivileged, middle-class Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) – replete with brown hair, brown eyes and a New York accent that casts him as an outsider on the blonde-haired-blue-eyed-laden beaches of Beverly Hills and its affluent residents, including bad-boy Johnny Lawrence, which admittedly […]
Bill Hicks was that dude. He was hilarious, intelligent and spoke truth to power. Which makes the fact that he died at 32 of pancreatic cancer an utter tragedy. He was just about to set the world on fire and have a Carlin-like run as a stand-up who transcended comedy and actually started to have an effect […]
Feb23
Will Arnett Watches Hockey, You Should Watch “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”
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If you don’t like Will Arnett, we’re not friends. GOB Bluth of Arrested Development is probably the greatest character in TV history, and here he is watching an Olympic hockey game up in Vancouver the other day. I’m pretty sure that Will has also been in some movies. That feels like enough of a movie-related tie-in to […]