Great Mentors of the 90s in SIDEKICKS and 3 NINJAS
A movie may play many roles – entertainer, muse, provocateur… and babysitter. Ever since the…
Year of the Month: Randy Newman’s LAND OF DREAMS Produces Nightmares
Land of Dreams contains both one of Randy Newman’s all-time best and worst songs –…
What The F? Babalugats on BOLERO
Since Cinemascore began operation in 1979 only 21? 22? Possibly more? films have received the…
Year of the Month: FOREVER CHANGES and a “Bummer in the Summer (of Love)”
In attendance at a 1968 recording session for the Doors, Joan Didion called them “missionaries…
Decade of the Month: SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS
All in all, F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise has an almost mythic sense of beauty and power.…
The High and Low of Flaherty’s 20s: NANOOK and MOANA
Many people love to see far-off destinations on film – the globe-trotting of James Bond…
The Long Takes of CHILDREN OF MEN (Year of the Month)
Children of Men is a bravura film with a scarily predictive depiction of a collapsing…
Year of the Month: The Disorientation of Joanna Newsom’s YS
In an interview, following the release of Ys, Newsom said that the ending of “Monkey…
“Let’s Shoot It Both Ways” – THE TV SET
Just before scorching the stale tropes of music biopics with Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox…
A Soderbergh Escapade: KIMI
“Crazy times. The world these days. I mean, it bums me out, to be honest.”…