Nine Techniques for the Bad Viewer: A Manifesto
“Immerse yourself: you should never exist outside a movie.”
Category: Lists
Festivals & Awards · Lists · Reviews
Ten from 2010: Jacob Mikanowski: Selections from the Chicago and Warsaw International Film Festivals
#7: “A family drama about the dangers of beekeeping.”
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Ten from 2010: Erich Kuersten
#7: “A story starring a child is allowed to be bloodcurdlingly violent without softening it with hand-holding guilt or apathetic abstraction.”
What Is Cult Cinema? A Checklist
Will the real cult film please stand up?
Lists · Movies · Writers & Critics
Rating Movies: Or, Seeing Stars
“I want my favorites to get the high ratings — my judgments are being challenged by anonymous forces whom I cannot confront.”
Exploitation & Erotica · Lists
BLAD Top Tens by Genre
I guess I don’t speak for all of the BLAD council, but figured I’d get the ball rolling (presuming its not already rolling somewhere else) When making your own lists[…]
AFI’s 10 Top 10 Genre Omissions
Last week, the American Film Institute announced its list of “America’s 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres” – Animation, Romantic Comedies, Western, Sports, Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Gangster, Courtroom Drama,[…]
3 (or 4) Versions of Howard Hughes
Hughes as Narcissist – Robert Downey, Jr. in Iron Man Jon Favreau’s Iron Man (2008) has been universally praised for what it is, a well done but fundamentally generic superhero[…]
Actors & Personalities · Lists
Mother’s Day Salute to Cinematic Blonde Moms… of DEATH!
It’s mother’s day and as I was watching MULHOLLAND DRIVE just now for the millionth time, it occured to me that my love for cinema would not be nearly so[…]
TOP TEN TOP TENS of 2007
You can’t get away from the plethora of top ten lists out there: every year the web grows and so does the opinions. Instead of showing you mine, I’ve assembled,[…]
How’s Your French?
The following titles from Cahiers du cinéma‘s list of 100 plus beaux films de monde are the French titles of some of the greatest non-French films ever made, but –[…]
Halloween Special – 31 Essential Horror Films
Boris Karloff in “The Wurdalak” episode of Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath (1963) This is my ranked list of 31 Essential Horror Films culled from Ed Hardy, Jr.’s 183 Official Nominees[…]
The Weekend Moviegoer: So many films, so little art
Let’s get to it: What’s worth missing? The Jane Austen Book Club: Ann Hornaday at the Washington Post says this isn’t a chick flick, but adds that it is “a[…]
The Weekend Moviegoer: Oh, what I’ll be missing
Let’s get to it: What’s not worth it? The Nanny Diaries: I recently immortalized Scarlett Johansson, well, pretty much, while making fun of her, just a bit, but now I[…]
The Weekend Moviegoer
Another weekend, another nightmare. Let’s see what’s at the multiplex. The Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Sufer: Reed Richards is Mr. Wizard in a bad haircut. As for[…]
A locked door will not stop me, O Evil One!
Well, it won’t. When the Weekend Moviegoer wants to write about movies he isn’t going to see, no one can stop him, not even Mr. Devil. Spider-man 3 Actually, I’ve[…]
Weekend Moviegoer: The horror, eh, mon ami?
Yes it is ugly out there. What are the choices? Wild Hogs: “I haven’t laughed this much in ages!”, Marian Etoile-Watson, Fox TV/New York. “Etoile-Watson.” Yeah, that’s a name I[…]
The Weekend Moviegoer: It’s ugly out there
OK, what is out there? We Are Marshall: “If you’re not cheering you should check your pulse!”, Stephen Hunter, Washington Post. Sorry, dude. I stopped getting excited about high-school football[…]
Best Performances in Films the SAG Didn’t Like
The Screen Actors Guild has announced its nominations for 2006. Not surprisingly, the SAG tends to favor films dominated by (you guessed it) acting! And I don’t have much of[…]
African American · Essays · Genres · Lists · Movies
Routes to the City: The Ways of the New Black Films
“It’s independent thinking without the protection of an ‘indie’ label.” While hosting the Academy Awards in 2005, Chris Rock made the following claim: black films don’t have real names. “Barbershop?[…]
