Today, in promotion of the new Focus Features film, A Place Beyond The Pines, we have two prize packs to give away.
Full Story »2012: Best and Worst
The Dark Knight Rises is my worst movie of 2012. It’s Chris Nolan’s Batman & Robin. But, way less fun. So, it’s more like Batman & Robin AND a cancer diagnosis. Yay!
Full Story »Passage of Time Test: C.H.U.D.
I kicked. I screamed. I howled. All under the guise of a headache, massively exacerbated by the noisy subway system. People stared! And my poor mother had no idea of the real cause. It was all thanks to C.H.U.D.
Full Story »Indie Superheroes: Santos
Every once in a while, if I dig deep enough, I’m rewarded by Netflix. Usually by the Foreign and Independent sections.
Full Story »Watch, Look and Listen: The Sound of My Voice
I miss seeing films that are this simple, no bombastic special effects that (can) disrupt a damn fine story. That is what The Sound of My Voice has.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: The Big Picture
Tackling it one show at a time like I did made me feel pretty hopeful. More wrinkles! Lower concentrations of white people! Hooray! HOWEVER….Looking at them all at once shows something different.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: Movies
Having looked at female characters on network (young, mostly white) and cable television (less young, less white), let us now turn our attention to women in 2011;s biggest movie releases.
Full Story »Movies: Bunraku
I think Bunraku came out of a discussion about who was more badass: Ron Perlman or Clancy Brown.
Full Story »Conan the Barbarian
When I started working on this I got the weirdest little mind-worm — I started comparing the two principal actors to have played the titular barbarian (Arnold Schwarzenneger and Jason Momoa) to Van Halen frontmen David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar.
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