The heart wants what the heart wants, and in the never-ending quest for spiritual solace and a mental state of calm, none of us should hesitate to accept whatever presents itself as the truest remedy. What do I mean? Comfort food, dear reader. Comfort food. I have had a stressful few months, and while the…
This year, Netflix dropped one of its greatest original series, and before long I found myself hooked. In 13 episodes, I got swept up in the story of an indomitable hero overcoming a painful past on the wrong side of New York City; a story about standing up in the face of overwhelming odds, doomed…
Wow, last week’s review felt pretty negative. I sure did rip on foreign movies… and the entire film industry at large. Sorry about that. What can I say? Terrible movies put me in a bad mood, and Force Majeure was indeed, despite what I explicitly said to the contrary just seven days ago, terrible. If…
Baddie – Greedy sequels. Lesson – Excess is the plague of the human condition. Check out the first three movies here – join me in my own suffering. As I plunged headlong into the fourth Saw movie, I had an awakening. An epiphany – a revelation. Saw has re-invented story telling. It happened by accident,…
The climax of Atari: Game Over finds a couple hundred nerds, archeologists both professional and amateur, a digging crew, and a disgraced game designer anxiously standing by in a land fill; it’s windy and looks uncomfortably warm, and the expressions of the gathered mass adorned in sweat-lined video game t-shirts reflects this. An author waits by…
I think I commented a little while ago that I managed to miss pretty much all of the major foreign films from 2014. Now that it’s the following April, I’m finally beginning to catch up, although I have to question why from time to time. 2014 was not an amazing year for movies. I said…
In an era where big budget superhero films dominate the box office, it’s easy to forget that “comic book movie” was once a dirty phrase in Hollywood. Even 10 years ago, silver screen supeheroics were considered a risky investment before Nolan and Whedon used them to shatter records. Capes on Camera is a look at…
Rooster Illusion 