Just Don’t Call Me Late For Dinner
A dozen years ago there was a black comedy French film called Le diner de cons. The story is about a group of prominent French… Read More »Just Don’t Call Me Late For Dinner
Paul May Be Dead But This Film Is Boring
The Last Testament of George Harrison is a feature documentary narrated by an audio recording allegedly made by the late titular Beatle. Apparently, Harrison just… Read More »Paul May Be Dead But This Film Is Boring
My Pants
Punching the pig Filling my pants Drinking some milk Smelling my hands Sweating all night Taking a bath Smelling my hands Filling my pants Grumping… Read More »My Pants
I’m Good at Complaining
This post is basically the 2010 equivalent of the practice I had as a child of bi-annually scribbling down my incoherent and frustrated thoughts in… Read More »I’m Good at Complaining
How I Lost My Fear of Being White in Compton
It was a dry, yellow day in Los Angeles when I clomped my way up Hollywood Boulevard to tour one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural… Read More »How I Lost My Fear of Being White in Compton
Atom Egoyan’s Chloe is Creepy, Sexy… and Lousy
Living in a post-Austin Powers world unfortunately means the name Chloe evokes images of a web-footed, French child prostitute with evil progeny. Not so with… Read More »Atom Egoyan’s Chloe is Creepy, Sexy… and Lousy
White Ribbon a Blue Ribbon Effort
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke makes the bleakest and most disturbing films you have ever seen. He also makes some of the most beautiful, intelligent and… Read More »White Ribbon a Blue Ribbon Effort
The Ten Best Horror Films You’ve Never Seen
This Halloween video stores will be swamped with patrons clamouring to be scared silly. In the finite universe of horror-cinema most will settle for a… Read More »The Ten Best Horror Films You’ve Never Seen
Dusk
What a crazy clash of color Is there fire in your eyes? Orange flashes and it crashes As around your face it flies Orange leaping… Read More »Dusk
Vanity in the Bonfire
Beneath that column of smoke in the distance is a building fire, an engine crew, a little piece of hell. Inside that building, impossibly hot,… Read More »Vanity in the Bonfire