The Greatest Movie Ever Sold – Now, A Word From Our Sponsor
It was nine o’clock. The movie started at 9:20. I was at least 15 minutes away from the movie theatre. I’d have to move very…
Bad Teacher – Should We Just Assume “Teacher” Was Added Last Minute?
I’m not sure how many more movies can be carried on the trope of infantile adults, though Bad Teacher is going to try its damnedest,…
The Last Word – All Aboard the Ship of Fools!
Horrific events force us to channel the resulting anger into a visible, tangible object, one that visibly articulates our rage and anger by its existence,…
Peeps of the World, Unite! – or at least Bring in the Platypus!
In the last four weeks, Hop has split the top box office spot with the also animated, three-lettered Rio and the alliterative Fast Five, grossing…
13 Assassins – Death Is Worth Living For
When I heard that Takeshi Miike had a new movie out, I took the news with the same mix of anticipation and dread I would…
A Few Thoughts on What Scream 4 Is Really About
Fans are fans. They will do what fans do. They will gush. (Sometimes they will grumble.) Critics are critics. They will do what critics do….
Date Night: Hanna (And Other Things)
Two months ago, the Liberian Girl and I were lying in bed trying to fall asleep. The TV, which was trying to watch us, spit…
Wonder Boys and How Our Sorta-Celebrity Moments that Define Us
Pardon the superlative, but one of the most overlooked movies of the past ten years has to be Wonder Boys, a film directed by Curtis…
Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse
In Revelations, Death will eventually enter on a pale horse followed by Hell, to whom “power was given […] over the fourth part of the…
No Impact Man – Contradictions, Class Struggles and the Paradox of “Going Green”
Admittedly, when No Impact Man: The Documentary first popped up on Netflix, my first instinct was to watch it with the sole purpose of tearing…