Normally, I would never submit you readers to such lowbrow tomfoolery. But this is for science. I mean, there’s a diagram and everything. (via Next Round)
Some group of adults thought it would be a great idea for a bunch of little kids to perform Scarface as a school play. I gotta say … I totally agree. Sure beats the fourth grade play we did about Samuel de Champlain exploring the New World. Yes, that seriously happened. Who exactly is Samuel de Champlain? […]
Presumably, you’re familiar with Between Two Ferns. If not, here’s some background. Also, what’s wrong with you? You really need to be watching this. So sit back, relax, grab two waffles and a pancake, and enjoy the clip below.
Mar25
New to Me: Oldboy
(“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.) For the uninitiated, Oldboy is a Korean film with a […]
(“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.) Here’s the thing: I love zombie movies. I always have. I always will. As far as horror movies go, this genre is my favorite because it mines a theme that I find deeply disturbing: […]
If you tell me that you came across something cooler than these three 8-bit Lebowski images today on the internet, you are a liar. And there’s no lying online. This isn’t ‘Nam. This is the internet. There are rules.* * There are no rules.
Every good date night should end with a “date morning.” If the person you’re dating works nights at a bar (like the Liberian Girl does) then the morning could also double as a time to have a legitimate date. With meals, movies, snowball fights in DuPont Circle and those sorts of things. On a Saturday morning after […]
Back in 2004 they released a movie about Hank another one in this one Hank Bono Tom Waits Taylor Hackford John Martin Hank’s baby mother (the woman with the white hairs sprouting from her chin) Hank’s wife, Linda Lee and Sean Penn told the man’s story the parts we didn’t already know the parts edited by the […]
[Editor’s note: Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, comes out on DVD today. Tim Adkins wrote a great essay/review about it a while back and we figured today was a good time to revisit it here.] The Revolution, according to Michael Moore, has come. It may not be time to pick up the gun. But […]
In Brooklyn’s Finest, Anthony Fuqua applies his wonky, gritty vision of police-realism to a triumvirate of NYPD officers whose fates will eventually intermingle prior to the unnecessarily frozen and symbolism-riddled final frame that captures Eddie’s eyes, filled with pent-up rage that is snuffed by twenty two years of learned indifference and futility sullenly staring at the audience. Translation: […]