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…
Talking About Gladiators, Episode 2
Jared, Dustin and Rob discuss the horrible, horrible summer season of movies that Hollywood made them endure.
Country Strong — Even Redemption Needs to be Redeemed
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…
Cotto’s Best of 2010
The first word out of my mouth after seeing a “great” movie is more often than not, an expletive. Followed by an exhale. I would’ve…
Talking About Gladiators, Episode 1
Jared, Dustin and Rob discuss the horrible, horrible summer season of movies that Hollywood made them endure.
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…
Black Swan — On the Precipise of Obscurity
In The Wrestler, Aronofsky gave the audience an entertainer past his prime, wallowing in the remnant glow of stardom, listening to the death-rattle din of…
The Human Centipede — Licking a Cold Metal Pole Doesn’t Seem So Bad Now
As I sat amidst a pile of shredded wrapping paper, finishing my last syrup-soaked pancake, I flipped on A Christmas Story, once again watching a…
The Fighter – A Novel Approach to the Boxing Genre, Also a PSA and the Pilot for The Lowell Shore
For the second time in two weeks, I will do my best to avoid puns during this post, particularly the ubiquitously uncreative “knockout” that has…