Quick Hit | Argo Is Some Intense Shit
The Big Homie saw Argo. He said it was really intense.
Footnote — All Just a Little Bit of History Repeating
Two rival professors in Talmudic studies come to grips with their academic desires as well as the confrontation that looms within their own personal histories.
Dark Shadows — The Disney Demon Might Almost Be … Nevermind
Burton and Depp are coming closer to eradicating the tent-pole film machine known as Disney, but they’re not there yet.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — Outsourcing Sympathy
Even though it ends with a saccharine, fortuitous, foreseeable ending, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is an endearing and frightening journey for our cast of…
Weekend Arena: 10/5
In for some Liam Neeson kicking Turkish ass? Check out Taken 2 — guaranteed to be more like Taken than the first Taken. In the mood for something morbid…
The Bad News Bears — Love and Hate of Sports
Since the first time I viewed it as an eight year old (around 1989), The Bad News Bears was something of a pedestrian, underdog baseball…
Jiro Dreams of Perfect: A Movie About Sushi (Kinda)
Jiro makes sushi. He’s a bad man. But is he bad meaning bad? Or bad meaning good?
The Weekend Arena: 9/28
This week’s releases include trouble with time travel, a melodrama whose marketability is being aided by the Chicago teachers’ strike, and animated fart jokes.
Take 5 — Hoffman or Lewis Edition
Daniel Day Lewis and Phillip Seymour Hoffman are arguably the two best actors in Hollywood right now. We discuss their merits.
The Master — Bait for the Able-Bodied Masses
Designated by chatter as an exploration of Scientology, The Master defies categorization and offers a beautiful film featuring a war veteran caught in the midst…