Millard Kaufman died last week. While I’ve been doing things away from the internet the last couple of weeks, the news slipped by me. Who was Millard Kaufman, you ask? He was a writer. A good one, in my opinion, whose work I simultaneously happily encountered for the first time and reacquainted myself … Continue reading
Millard Kaufman died last week. While I’ve been doing things away from the internet the last couple of weeks, the news slipped by me. Who was Millard Kaufman, you ask? He was a writer. A good one, in my opinion, whose work I simultaneously happily encountered for the first time and reacquainted myself … Continue reading
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I will hereby trivialize and offend an entire culture by providing a quick, handy guide to the most underrated series of horror films of all time: the Leprechaun movies. I say I’m writing quickly because if I spend any longer on this series than I did watching … Continue reading
I don’t see any way around it. I’ve been writing about movies here now for the better part of the past year, so I can no more ignore the Academy Awards than I could Christmas, or politics, try as I might. It just finds its way into the thinking. Someone [couldn’t have … Continue reading
I recently received in the mail the limited edition 2-disc score album for John Carpenter’s Big Trouble In Little China. Take note that it’s a limited pressing: There are only 3000 of them. That means that, if you want one of your own, you had better get on it, and come back to … Continue reading
In honor of this weekend’s New York Comic Convention, I’m going to take an opportunity to briefly recommend a couple cool comics that I have come across over the past year. More as I discover [or am introduced to] them. The Alcoholic From Vertigo Comics came this graphic … Continue reading
“How come he’s always got that weird smile on his face, like he’s got secrets that no one else knows?” Understand that the above line of dialogue is not from Bullitt, with Steve McQueen. Instead we’re talking today about Bullet, from 1996, starring Mickey Rourke. Bullet. This is one big … Continue reading
“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks. The other night Letterman had Mary Hicks on his show. Mary Hicks is the great comedian Bill Hicks’s mom. Letterman had her on because of the fifteen-year anniversary of Bill’s death this month, and he used the occasion … Continue reading
Taken is the movie, just released in the U.S., in which the great actor Liam Neeson takes the Steven Seagal role of an ex-spy who moves to Los Angeles to be closer to his teenaged daughter, only to tear onto the path of vengeance and death-bringing when she is kidnapped on a summer … Continue reading
Not to repeat myself, but I think the movie is great. I think Aronofsky’s contribution is comparatively underrated, as are the contributions of the writer, cinematographer, costumers, and the locations department, among others. I think Mickey Rourke is on a collision course with a little gold bald figure, and while I think … Continue reading