It feels like it’s been a long week. It’s hard to say precisely why, except to say that it’s had it’s share of unexpected surprises for a lot of people around me. I’d like to think that I could take the weekend to recoup, but as it happens, the weekend is gonna be hellish too.…
The cool thing about writing as part of a community is meeting people who have similar tastes to your own. Eventually, you meet someone who’s tastes overlap so much that they’re more or less your filmgoing soulmate. For me that bromance is currently raging with Simon Columb. Though even in the most sound of relationships,…
I’m still very much on the fence about the use of 3-D in films, and of all the trillions of features playing in three dimensions soon, the only one I have any interest of ponying up the extra loot for is Scorsese’s HUGO CABRET. But then there’s Werner Herzog. The one thing I’ll always associate…
There’s a lot about MORNING GLORY that makes me want to just wail away on it. But in a rare twist, there is also an awful lot to dig. However, the fact that the details I dig are never really seen to fruition just makes me want to wail away all the more. It’s a…
This week brings a special episode of The Matineecast which might have been better in concept than it was in execution. I couldn’t have been happier with what my guests brought to the table, and having been shooting the shit with these guys in person since last summer I was thrilled to finally get them…
That Stop You Just Made to Buy Your Morning Coffee? It Just Changed the Course of Your Whole Life.
This week we return to normal. Normal meaning that I’m only recounting one week’s worth of watching, not that I took in a normal amount of films. I believe the one thing that I’ve established indisputably is that I watch an absolutely abnormal amount of movies. But really, is that news? Three of this week’s…
