In this episode, Rudie and West continue their series on Wes Anderson with a discussion of his latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
I’m a married person, for whom plans for fatherhood are slowly taking shape. More and more I’m having to consider how a child will fit into the increasingly complicated jigsaw puzzle of life, happiness, careers, etc. This is maybe why...
In retrospect, maybe the first warning came during the pre-meal cocktails. Roger Gual’s Tasting Menu is a film that takes place over the course (or courses, rather) of a dinner on the closing night of a world-renowned restaurant in Spain....
I always like to say, first of all, that there’s no such thing as a bad year for film, and I mean it. I saw 150 new-release films last year; there were a lot of bad ones, but when I...
Expecting is an apt title for this film, because I kept expecting it to do something interesting. Sadly it never did. Also from the title you can glean that it is about a pregnancy, but really it isn’t. Expecting doesn’t seem to even respect the...
Documentaries encompassing a host of subjects offer a trickier narrative than those that focus on a single subject. In The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear, first-time director Tinatin Gurchiani looks at young people in Georgia (the country that’s a former...
Judd Apatow’s new film This Is 40 is, as the posters state, sort of a sequel to his 2007 film Knocked Up. It takes place, reportedly, in the same universe and features two of that film’s strongest characters, who were...
Before they changed it to the currently-favored, simplest-possible-thank-you Hitchcock, the film we find ourselves currently discussing was called Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, after the (non-fiction) book from which it’s adapted. While a more elaborate, though no less...
Wayne White has had the kind of career that would make any artist jealous. In the ‘80s he was one of the founding puppeteers and art directors behind Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and later worked on shows including Beakman’s World and...
