Another decade done, with my supreme goal of living to the age of 124 and dying in late 2105 incrementally closer.  It’s very trite to note that this was a disastrous decade for everything but quality food, music (and its accessibility) and truly outstanding television.  Democratic politics has become so depressing that the existence of [...]

My first thought was, “This is Roland Emmerich’s Inland Empire.  Now he has to switch genres altogether.”
I meant to blog about this days ago (because I saw the film 9 days ago) but sometimes it’s better to wait.  I hardly ever write about films anyway.  I’ve seen just about every entry in the category of [...]

This country has a two-tiered system of justice.  If you’re wealthy and connected and your crime wasn’t completely horrific, you generally get off pretty easy.  If you’re poor, non-white, etc., then the draconian end of US jurisprudence is coming to get you.  This is why there are three million people in prison, jail or on [...]

I don’t write nearly enough movie reviews these days.  I was especially excited to see a film on opening night and blog about it right away, but I was locked out of here for 3 days since it’s now hosted in a different space.  Julie and Julia was pretty great.  If you don’t like Meryl [...]

I know I just railed about states of exception or categories that only have one thing in them, but this is profoundly bizarre and absolutely amazing.  It’s the Sixties-iest thing I’ve ever seen.  The sets are incredible.  It’s like art on the corporate campus of a company that manufactured sex robots for the Soviet Union.  [...]

Sometimes I get the feeling that the body horror genre is dying away and that, thanks to CGI and the general toleration for mediocre uses of it, sci-fi is fast becoming a subset of action films.  The newest Terminator film is a hot mess that relies on Christian Bale to serve as its, well, salvation.  [...]

Actually saw it a week ago, and it was pretty decent.  Unlike the rest of the film series, it was stylistically closer to a Star Wars prequel, and although I’m something of an Attack of the Clones partisan, it surpasses all three of those abortions.  Some of the critical reception is puzzling; more than anything [...]

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I watched Schindler’s List for the first time in my life and I really didn’t like it.  It actually made me sympathize with the Nazi cause.  (No that’s a lie; I just hate Steven Spielberg).  Coincidentally, the [...]

There is no reason to get irritated when mediocrity triumphs; that’s what the Oscars are for.  Of all the movies that have won Best Picture there’s really only about 3-4 that actually rank among the best of American film.  The last 15 years, starting with Forrest Gump, have been particularly egregious.  Now let’s dish.
Kate Winslet [...]