Stan Lee is an ubiquitous public figure, having done the near impossible: creating an empire that transcends cultural, racial, and religious barriers. I don’t intend to sycophantically praise the man … Read More
89th ACADEMY AWARDS: Who Will Win and Who Should (A Subjective Guide)
I am historically bad at predicting Oscar winners. In the past ten years I have pompously and confidently claimed Mickey Rourke, Jessica Chastain, Mark Ruffalo and Hellboy 2 (it was nominated … Read More
Film Review: LONDON TOWN
Review: London Town The biggest problem with Derrick Borte’s London Town is the unfortunate timing. A coming of age story about a young boy from the United Kingdom, hopelessly in … Read More
Film Review: ANTS ON A SHRIMP
Cooking is an inherently cinematic profession. Struggling chefs, who work long hours for nothing more than a pittance and a notch in their culinary reputation, make for compelling protagonists. The … Read More
Film Review: KILLBILLIES
Horror has never been a subtle genre; even the best of the best wear their ethos like a bright red overcoat dripping with entrails. But Killbillies—billed as “Slovenia’s First Horror … Read More
Film Review: WEINER
Few political sex scandals have burned as bright as Anthony Weiner’s infamous sexting improprieties, wherein (among other things) the former Congressman accidentally tweeted—to thousands of followers and constituents—a picture of … Read More
Film Review: THE PHENOM
The Phenom is a baseball film with almost no baseball in it. The film’s young protagonist, Hopper Gibson Jr. (Johnny Simmons), takes the mound maybe three times. We never see … Read More
TV Review: THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE
The Girlfriend Experience—a Starz original program based on Steven Soderbergh’s low-budget 2009 film of the same name—is a strange beast. Oppressively atmospheric and cold to the touch, The Girlfriend Experience … Read More
Film Review: GHOSTBUSTERS
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters has had a long, strange odyssey to the big screen, doing battle with sirens and cyclopes in the form of grown men throwing five year old pounding … Read More
Film Review: MISCONCEPTION
Misconception, the documentary from filmmaker Jessica Yu, is a bit of a messy film, featuring a disjointed three chapter structure and often failing to build momentum. However, the subject matter … Read More
Film Review: BURNT
Perhaps it’s the sadomasochism of my own creative subconscious that finds me drawn towards films about capable creators whose downfall is themselves. (Seek out Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers … Read More
Please Don’t Talk at the Movies: A Brief Anecdote
I saw ROOM (which I mostly loved!) this past weekend. But I had the misfortune of sitting next to a guy who decided the movie about kidnap, rape and the … Read More
Film Review: HATE CRIMES IN THE HEARTLAND
It’s become far too common for Americans—specifically, white Americans—to declare that the country exists in a “post-racial world”. For every story about a person of color suffering a grave injustice, … Read More
Film Review: CHERRY TREE
Ryan Murphy (Glee, Nip/Tuck, Eat Pray Love, et al.)—purveyor of cotton candy tinged television shows that dive headlong into the zeitgeist of current popular culture—reached the apex of his Ryan … Read More
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