Articles in film
Piss off, Twilight: Eclipse.
Go to hell, Toy Story 3.
Good riddance, Knight and Day.
Let’s be honest. The only real blockbuster this summer is the World Cup. Football. Soccer. The world’s game. The beautiful game. But not …
Tyler Re: is driving a moving truck from Louisiana to Michigan, so he’s skipping right to dessert this week.
Satiate your appetite with this clip: Bruce Lee fighting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Game of Death, a posthumous …
This review comes to you unfiltered by Rui Nogueira. Her commentary impressed me, but I lost my notes.
Jean Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai opens with this quotation from The Book of Bushido:
“There is no greater solitude …
Back in the day of fantastical antiquity, Greek historian Herodotus claimed he knew where cinnamon came from (the origin of the spice being a particular puzzler back then): in Arabia, there lived giant cinnamon birds …
Silent film genius Fritz Lang made a spy film in 1928 called, straightforwardly, Spies. Alfred Hitchcock, paving the way for the English penchant for the genre, made a string of spy movies in the ‘30s …
Chinatown. The movie they tell you to watch. The screenplay they tell you to read. Director: Polanski. Writer: Robert Towne. Stars: Nicholson and Dunaway and John Huston.
“You’re a nosy kitty cat.”
“Sister! Daughter! Sister! Daughter!”
“Forget it …
