(“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 haven’t yet seen Battle Royale, you’re not alone. Despite this film’s cult status, its challenging subject matter made it the kind of movie that wasn’t even available on Region 1 DVDs, let […]
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 sweat glands and gradually returning my retinas to their inherently white color, the seven hour, two-part flight was a bit daunting. However, things began to look up as I arrived at PDX […]
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. As you may guess, dear reader, this is…not…one of them. You’ve heard about Iron Man 2, right? It’s, like, the biggest movie in the world. Right now. (But not of ever. Some […]
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 from his purely embryonic origins. The initial need for superpowers was unnecessary as Tony Stark is depicted as an enviable character prior to his iron baptism – an affluent playboy who drives […]
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 and/or boredom. Good on him/her, even if he/she did spell his name wrong. That guy sucks. (image via Buzz Feed … h/t @treykerby) I only called him T-How because I imagine that’s […]
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 Ronald Reagan era. I’m not trying to be political with that statement. I just needed a synonym for ’80s so I didn’t use it twice in the same sentence. Both videos […]
May13
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 of the time it probably could just be something he thinks he’s doing for the first time every movie. Quentin: “I had this amazing idea for a shot last night.” DP: “The […]
May13
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 going on over in Spain, because while the American movie industry has seemingly lost its ability to produce a decent creepy movie, Spanish filmmakers, led by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) have […]
(“New To Me” is a column wherein your intrepid reviewer watches the classics — both mainstream and cult — in an effort to fill in the holes in his pop culture literacy and avoid the garbage that generally defines modern cinema. Related thoughts below. See other entries here.) Movies like this make it hard to be a […]