You know, driving is one of my all time favorite things to do. I sit in the air conditioned comfy seat, and rock out to my favorite tunes. It’s awesome. But, as much as I love it, sometimes I space out, and lose track of what’s going on. And maybe I drift a little. Nothing [...]
When deciding on a movie for this week’s Sleeper Cell, I couldn’t choose between David LaChapelle’s gritty urban documentary of South Central hip hop dancers Rize and David Cronenberg’s 1999 whacked out sci-fi thriller eXistenZ. So I’m cheating by going totally off the board and selecting a live recording of a London dramatic performance! In [...]
People dog on indie movies, because all indie movies seem to tell goofy stories about quirkier-than-thou characters who end up getting the girl against overwhelming odds, improbably winning an unexpected gunfight or overcoming their debilitating social awkwardness and all this is presented through faux home-spun soundtracks with tinny guitars and totally unnecessary close-ups against a [...]
This is the way the world ends. Not with a whimper but a bang. There’s no right place to begin with Southland Tales. The movie is Richard Kelly’s follow up to his cult hit Donnie Darko. In short … ok. There is no¬†short version. The story is pretty ridiculously complicated. But the plot? We can [...]
When I decided on Real Genius for this week, I swear, I didn’t even need to watch it again for a refresher. We all have a a few movies we’ve spent a quantifiable portion of our lives watching. Mine are Robocop, Walt Disney’s Robin Hood and Real Genius. I saw this most awesome comedy for [...]
The first time I laughed til I cried was watching the “Mr. B Natural” short on Mystery Science Theater 3000. And every time since I really think it was at TV shows. Monty Python and the Holy Grail notwithstanding, most of the really good laughs I can remember have been in my home watching an [...]
As is obvious from this picture, and from one viewing of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Jim Jarmusch is too cool for school. He’s a walking breathing art-house who doesn’t need to try to make quirky movies – he opens his mouth and talks in close-ups and awkward lighting. Coffee and Cigarettes is [...]
Ok, quick and to the point: I love this movie so much I want to buy it jewelry and ask it to move in. Yeah‚Ķ But I really didn‚Äôt have a choice from the very first thirty seconds. Patrick Fugit (the dude from Almost Famous) leans over and puts on a record. Tom Waits‚Äô “Dead [...]
A movie with a twelve million dollar budget with an all-star director and his all-star writer leading an all-star cast grossing under five million dollars is the very definition of sleeper. If ever there were a movie that you should’ve seen but you didn’t, it’s The Genius Danny Boyle’s A Life Less Ordinary. And don’t [...]
I was going to start this review out with a top 5 list of my favorite movies where people eat each other. Turns out though, outside of zombie/plague movies and Avocado Jungles of Death, it doesn’t really happen that often. And I refuse to include movies where people eat people without knowing they’re eating people [...]
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