Chew On This: Battle Royale
(“Chew on This” is Bill Coffin’s column on horror cinema, analyzing the some of best movies the genre has to offer, new and old.) If you…
Splice — Freud Would Have a Field Day
Two years ago, I was heading from Oregon to New York. As a week of Pinot drinking was slowly seeping its way out of my…
Marvel v. DC: Iron Man 2 v. The Losers
Somewhere in the comic universe, there is a Mason-Dixon Line (a Stark-Wayne Line?) that separates Marvel from DC. Fierce battles take place across that line….
Iron Man 2 — Oiiyllll Cyaaaan
Because of its rather unique take on superhero origin stories, Iron Man was quite enjoyable and offered a glimpse at the birth of a superhero…
Terrence Howard Is Up 2 Strokes on Tony Stark
Oh? Wait? This isn’t a golf leaderboard? Well then … It looks like some theater operator in Seattle is just clowning T-How out of fun…
“You’re Dead Meat,” says the 1980s
This ’80s bully montage (girl, we want a montage) serves as Exhibit V that no other decade was more cartoonish or disingenuous to reality than…
The Tarantino Shot
You have to imagine this recurring camera shot is sort of a Hitchcock-doing-the-Where’s-Waldo-thing type of signature for Quentin Tarantino. Then again, he’s so high most…
Chew On This: Shiver
(“Chew on This” is Bill Coffin’s column on horror cinema, analyzing the some of best movies the genre has to offer, new and old.) There’s something…
New to Me: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(“New To Me” is a column wherein your intrepid reviewer watches the classics — both mainstream and cult — in an effort to fill in…