We move on from Part 1 to Kubrick, Military Takeovers, Alienation, and Abstraction. A rather crowded line-up to be sure. Lets get started with empathizing with pedophilia! I apologize in advance. 50). Lolita Expresses Sexual Taboos With…
2014 has come and gone, another year in books, so as is movie reviewer tradition it is time to come up with a listing of the very best films that I saw in the past…
The very best movies of this recent past year concerned themselves with depicting life in the present; living in the here and now, whenever that “here and now” was. From the 60’s Poland to the…
There are very few consecutive modern decades that share as little in common as the 50’s slowly transformed into the 60’s, going from the largely stoic and static 50’s to the kinetic and highly expressive…
A recent struggle to get some articles posted in the last month or so led me to a semi-existentialist question for myself. I get writer’s block for many reasons, going through long stretches of just…
I would like to think somewhere Gene and Roger are having a hell of a time debating the artistic merits of this film, would give two thumbs up just to that debate. As I have…
Like my fellow blogger and friend Alex Withrow likes to say he wants to watch a movie and be able to say to himself “Someone gets it”. Richard Linklater and company get it.12 years, one…
After a nearly a six decade long career in film, veteran character actor Eli Wallach passed away today at the ripe old age of 98. IMDB lists 167 actor credits to his name spanning film…
Today marks what would’ve been the late great influential film critic Roger Ebert’s 72nd birthday, and though he died just last year his writing style, witticisms and passion for the craft he loved will outlive…
A riddle for you: What do Alejandro Jodorowsky, H.R Giger, Salvador Dali, Pink Floyd, Mick Jagger, Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud, David Carradine and Orson Welles all have in common? Famously insane and engaging cult director Alejandro…