ALMODOVAR ADDS A POET TO HIS QUEUE
Almodovar will take on communist poet at some point.
Almodovar will take on communist poet at some point.
First pic from Richard Kelly’s follow-up/apology for Southland Tales.
The first night of Eli Roth’s Greats of Roth film festival was killer.
Once upon a time, Netflix was a special place where I could rent my obscure Z-grade zombie films in peace without risking the shunning gaze of the Hollywood Video clerk. Many Let Sleeping Corpses Lie-s later, Netflix has blossomed into a full-fledged, pain-in-my-ass social networking site. While I refuse to engage in or be a … Continue reading
News flash: It is harder to write about Alligator and The Howling than I thought. Plus, with the Secaucus 7 DVD having Sayles commentary, I know I’ll be watching that twice before writing about it. (Thoughts on that one so far: Lawrence Kasdan is so unbelievably full of shit when he says he hadn’t seen … Continue reading
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be doing a little critical analysis, as well as my own personal retrospective, on the films of Steven Spielberg. Granted, I won’t do all of them. I’ve done one for Ain’t It Cool News for E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (you can read that one here) and although Spielberg is probably … Continue reading
I’ll be honest: Monster movies have never really been my thing. I enjoy them from time to time, but I don’t have the love for them — or for horror in general — that most geeks do. So I was pretty surprised to find that I really enjoyed both Alligator and The Howling, two creature … Continue reading
Signs three fairly respectable choices for likely to be laconic new flick.
Valentine’s Day Weekend had people Jumpering for their Love. (Jump in).
Before I compose an ill-advised, trouser-tearing mash note to the twenty-one-year-old offspring of B.J. McKay, I’d like to acknowledge the blogging retirement of Mark Lisanti, whose trenchant wit made Defamer a daily must-read. Lisanti’s prolificacy was impressive enough; short of slapping at the keyboard indiscriminately (aka “The Updike Method”), several thousand words a day is … Continue reading