Year of the Month: Under the Influence of Cassavetes – MARGOT AT THE WEDDING
With the news that John Cassavetes’s Husbands (perhaps my all-time favorite film) is getting the…
Shining violence in the city: AFTER DARK, featuring Italians Do It Better and Johnny Jewel
I mentioned After Dark in my music retrospective; now it’s time for you to learn more.…
The best original songs of 2007, according to the Academy
Another year, another rule change. For only the fourth time in the category’s history (but…
Year of the Month: Belated Comebacker on BREACH
2007 was a formative year for my relationship with the movies. It was the year…
Taco Break: Stop The Plot
My taste for relentlessly plotted genre works is well known around these parts, but a…
Celebrating the Living: Jaleel White
To be perfectly honest, this is one of those people who most clearly straddles the…
Attention Must Be Paid: Isabel Sanford
Every one in a while, I learn something while doing my research that makes he…
Disney Byways: “How to Hook Up Your Home Theater”
When I went looking for a still from this, it of course hit the snag…
Year of the Month: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
It’s easy to forget with movies like Bohemian Rhapsody going through the paces so exactly…
Drunk Napoleon Listens To Bob Dylan: Music To Kill A Man To
“Masters Of War”, Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan “John Wesley Harding”, John Wesley Harding “Positively 4th Street”…