Enclosed in this wonderful, action-packed first blog entry is going to be a little info about myself. I suppose the better you know me and where I am coming from, all the better to understand my views and opinions on the things that I will eventually write about. Moves are pretty much the be-all, end-all … Continue reading
Updated: Read Devin’s interview with John Cusack here It’s not such a shock if you haven’t heard much about John Cusack’s new movie, War, Inc. A Google news search yields an anemic handful of hits. There’s no “arg” for it, unless you count real life. But for certain corners of the internets it’s as much … Continue reading
The First Rant is the Deepest. Yes, boys and girls, it most certainly is. The brief description under my name and next to my handsome face is all you really initially need to know about me. The rest will come through via my writing. However, if for some unknown reason you wish to know more … Continue reading
Debuting at Cannes this year was Wong Kar Wai’s film Ashes of Time Redux. This is a surprise to just about everyone, as the director seems to plan his releases around some kind of Mayan star-calendar or something. After last year’s debut of My Blueberry Nights at the festival, I was expecting to see Quetzalcoatl … Continue reading
What’s the most disgusting thing you’ve ever seen? Some of you might mention a specific bit of icky gore from a b-level horror film that you saw last month; others might recall a moment of pouring salt on a snail and watching it curl up and die. But me? I vividly remember this most disgusting … Continue reading
The house that I grew up in was directly in front of a cemetery, and one of the biggest questions I had to field as a kid was whether or not this fact scared me. Now maybe it is one of those things, where if you are confronted by it all time you just kind … Continue reading
The current state of cinema is one that revolves mostly around the bottom line. Big names, big distribution deals and all the usual content we read day in and day out. Basically, the bigger the better. The only facet that isn’t inflating in any way is the size of the risk that filmmakers take to … Continue reading
I’m the one on the left, and that’s Norman Mailer on the right. This picture was taken before he crossed me, of course. Any later and he would have been in the grave. Ask anyone at Mailer’s funeral what happens when you cross me. But we had some good times before our relationship went to … Continue reading
It is pretty rainy and dreary down here in good old San Diego at the moment. I decided to hold up in the apartment on this Friday night and catch up on some much needed me time. I winded up reheating some refried beans from a leftover get-together I had had just a … Continue reading
Indy IV and the Blind. So we reviewed the living daylights out of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and we’re putting the finishing touches on a spoiler-laden tag team review, four different people who make an effort to call it as we see it without the mind clouding faux enthusiasm and … Continue reading