What do you you say about a twenty-six-year-old girl with a terminal illness? That she’s beautiful and brilliant? That she loves Liz Phair and Polaroids, video cameras and Jake Gyllenhaal? In Love and Other Drugs, Anne Hathaway plays Maggie Murdock, … Continue reading One day things will be much better but I don’t really want to write another verse
Today, I will humbly direct you elsewhere. Continue reading Ain’t you hungry for success, success, success, success
#5 — The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) It didn’t occur to me at the time, but, looking back, Jonathan Demme wasn’t the most obvious choice to helm the film adaptation of Thomas Harris’s grim novel about an … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Five
#6 — Fargo (Joel Coen (and Ethan Coen) Fargo begins with a sly gag. Maybe it’s more appropriate to say it begins with a bit of a prank. A title card appears, asserting that the film that follows is based … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Six
I have a whole jumble of words available for your reading pleasure today. Bu they’re located elsewhere. Continue reading Be still and know, be very, very wise, be sure and go when you know time is right
Much as I’d love to be complete in my moviegoing, feasting my eyes on each and every significant offering to get splashed up on screens, a variety of reasons necessitate a more selective approach. For a long time, I used … Continue reading You rolled them sevens with nothing to lose
#7 — Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994) There are an abundance of reasons why sports stories work so well in the movies. The nature of the games themselves offers up a nice clean narrative line, and the duel of opposing … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Seven
Very few words here. A lot of words elsewhere. Continue reading If you could be anything you want I bet you’d be disappointed, am I right?
At some point, I’m sure it will happen. We’ll assemble one of our Bad Movie Night double features with a film that doesn’t really deserve such a condemnation. It’ll be one of those proudly lurid thrillers that are appealing in … Continue reading Bad Movie Night — The Box/Surrogates
In 2008, a 16mm print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was found in Buenos Aires that was significantly longer than any other version that currently exists. When the silent film debuted in Germany in 1927, it ran around two-and-a-half hours. As … Continue reading You could sleep along the way, dream in black and white
