Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Moment of Truth originally ran as a home video review. For those of us who recognize bullfighting to be an irredeemably inhumane activity, The Moment of...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Endless Poetry (Alejandro Jodorowsky) originally ran as a theatrical review. When Alejandro Jodorowsky makes a film, it’s like an event. He so rarely makes movies and...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a theatrical review. If Da Vinci was right, that art is never finished, only abandoned, it’s little wonder we consider Orson Welles to be...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as part of our TCM Classic Film Festival 2019 coverage. Decidely more of an A-picture noir from the same year is Jean Negulesco’s Road House. Every...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a Home Video Hovel review. The most arresting credit in the opening titles of Daniel Mann’s For Love of Ivy isn’t the listing of the cast,...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a theatrical review. The last time director Jason Reitman teamed with screenwriter Diablo Cody, the result was Juno, a film as loved as it is...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a theatrical review. Lee Daniels’ new film The Paperboy is a seedy, pulpy film in which a scantily clad Zac Efron attempts to woo oversexed Nicole...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a Home Video Hovel review. Aggressively politicized fiction will always be somewhat controversial, I suppose, or, more often the case these days, ignored entirely....
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a Home Video Hovel review. There’s one moment in Blind Date that made me laugh and it was a subtle audio joke in the...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Charles Burnett, armed with a more substantial budget, some star power, and an overall broader canvas, works out what might be...
