Andre Dellamorte
Blogs by this Author
Dellamorte's Dugout: Two Tickets to Paradise
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 02/9/2008
Tonight I'm going to The Crash Mansion. That's not an exclusive club, or anything like that. It's on S. Grand Ave. in LA, and should be a relatively quick commute. For twelve dollars a ticket, you can...
DD: The Curse of Wayne Morse
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 02/8/2008
Only two men voted against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. For those who don't know, that was the event that led to the escalation in Vietnam. The incident that sparked this escalation turned ou...
DD: We're Off to See the Uncanny Valley!
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 02/6/2008
So, I watched The Wizard of Oz last night. It's strange to think this film is a family classic, all that. It's so fucking fake. The Lion? Not a real lion. Etc. Etc. All analog effects. And it still wo...
DD: "You think about Kurt Fuller Too Much"
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 02/4/2008
That's what an ex said to me once. Kurt Fuller. You know him. The only man who could concieveably replace William Atherton as the corporate stooge trying to keep our Ghostbusters from doing their jo...
DD: Fifty Bucks Never Killed Anyone!
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 02/3/2008
Push comes to shove, if someone asked me what the funniest film ever made was, I would likely list two options. One would be Duck Soup. The other would be Used Cars. In fact I recently got an email as...
DD: Lars and the Real Juno* Spoiler discussion
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 02/2/2008
What's interesting about both these films is that they are written by women, and have male characters who are actively pursued by women, whilst the man generally puts in little to no work. In my exper...
DD: A Mini Bucket List review
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 02/2/2008
AKA: Old Men in Front of Green Screens.Rob Reiner has shot his load, but he's a proficient hack. Jack Nicholson seems more engaged than most of his hackworkeries, and Morgan Freeman seems to engage hi...
DD: Put on Your Red Shoes and Dance the Blues
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 02/1/2008
I think there are number of different attitudes towards blogging. Lord knows I've had a couple different ideas, and a couple different blogs. Half were fake. Diablo Cody put a blog entry on her ...
Dellamorte's Dugout: That's the Way it Crumbles*
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 01/30/2008
*Cookie-wiseDevin once told me my distaste for Billy Wilder's One Two Three infected him so he couldn't enjoy the film. I felt bad, but only slightly. Wilder strikes me as over-rated in the scheme of ...
Dellamorte's Dugout: THE NUMBER ONE FILM IN AMERICA* IS RAMBO!
- By Andre Dellamorte
- Published 01/30/2008
*For Monday.My friend Mike Russell - who runs Culturepulp and just did a wonderful interview with Marjane Satrapi and also writes for the Oregonian - does some movie talking on the Portlan...
