Alright – last time I mentioned that I was doing a big giant music project and that it was driving me crazy, because (and this is where I sound like an old man) all music coming out these days is terrible. Terrible. But hey, April 12 was coming around, and it was going to be [...]
It’s been roughly 15 months since I’ve been welcomed with open arms into this wonderfully potty-mouthed family here at Mediabreach.com, and things just keep getting better. It’s been awhile since I’ve taken the time to put an article together, and this seemed as good a time as any to reboot. For 2011, I’m going all [...]
I figured since I prolly wasn’t going to get out to see The Mechanic any time soon (even though I love they’re using a Quarashi song in the trailer), I might as well honor the awesomeness that is quickly taking it’s corporeal form in the shape of Ben Foster. Foster is the creepy dude in the [...]
The story is classic: an eccentric multi-millionaire invites the world’s greatest detectives to his home for a weekend to solve an unsolvable crime. The one who gets it right, gets a million dollars. It‚Äôs been a horror/mystery staple since the beginning of horror and mystery. And playwright Neil Simon wrote Murder by Death as a [...]
Sleeper Cell will reflect movies that perhaps you missed or have always been meaning to watch but are too much of an asshole to place into your Netflix queue.  This could be a movie from 50 years ago or a movie from last year.  Bottom line, these are choice flicks and you missed out so [...]
So just one review ago, I declared my disdain for adaptations of Stephen King’s novels (by and large). However, his shorter works seem to make for better movies. “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (little known fact: this is the novella that spawned Frank Darabont’s masterpiece, The Shawshank Redemption), weighing in at just over 100 pages [...]
Now I know what you’re thinkin. You saw the title “Candide” and thought, “He’s not really going to talk about eighteenth century French literature is he?? Vous misez ton cul I am. Recorded live from Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, New York. It’s here we [...]
As much as we’d sometimes like to believe it, no first time feature length motion picture director just up and makes a movie for the first time ever and churns out work that can be compared to the great movies of all time, such as Reservoir Dogs or The Shawshank Redemption. It just doesn’t happen. [...]
Welcome to the third installment of the movies you missed because they went straight to DVD, but you didn’t know it, and you should be fine with it. This one is a drama. See, the first one Ink was fantasy. Then Jack Brooks was horror. Next week will probably be a comedy. But why plan [...]
Next up in the increasingly long line of movies that don’t need remakes/sequels is the 1984 sci-fi/adventure The Last Starfighter. One of the hallmarks of 80s childhoodry is Nick Castle’s intergalactic romper where young Alex Rogan, a video game prodigy, is tapped by the Star League to pilot a starfighter. After the home base is [...]
Released in 1986 to the tune of 1.5 million dollars, Solarbabies is¬†sort of¬†the red-headed stepchild of 1980′s sci-fi/fantasy. The movie was directed by Alan Johnson, but it doesn’t really show. What I mean to say is that if I said this movie was directed by Tom Jackson or William Cordroy, you wouldn’t know the difference. [...]
If you’ve never heard of Neil Gaiman, don’t worry; you’re not a bad person. Just know the man has been wearing black jeans and black t-shirts for the last 50 years or so, and has been telling some of the world’s greatest stories for most of it. And in the interest of full disclosure, I [...]
“In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His story will be told here.” So begins the novel Das Parfum by the German author Patrick Suskind. The novel was thought to be 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 [...]
I’ve been thinking for the past few days now, and there’s just no way to say with any kind of gentleness (or with the respect that an actor like Clive Owen deserves) how truly terrible a life event it is to sit through Mike Hodges’ hard-boiled thriller I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead. I was drawn to this movie, seeing it sitting there on the Blockbuster shelf, because of Clive Owen. I didn’t know who the guy was when I saw The Bourne Identity or King Arthur, which no doubt helped him enter my mind on a level playing field when I saw Sin City for the first time. The movie that was billed as a dark Bruce Willis vehicle ended up reminding us of Mickey Rourke (whose performances in the low-profile Masked and Anonymous and even the higher-profiled Domino and Once Upon a Time in Mexico went largely unnoticed, aside from his dog) and introducing American audiences to Clive’s particular style of stone-facery. So I picked it up.
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