Film on the Internet: ROUNDERS
John Dahl’s pacey, insightful Rounders is about a young man, but it has the weight…
The King’s Deathbed: DreamWorks in 2004 (Year of the Month)
Nicole Laporte’s excellent book The Men Who Would Be King chronicles the whole sad saga of…
Small Returns on Big Thoughts in Downsizing
Alexander Payne’s Downsizing has been out long enough that you’re unlikely at this point to…
Dissolve On (12/24/2017-12/30/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Dissolve On (12/17/2017-12/23/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
The Crew: OCEAN’S ELEVEN (2001) with Commentary (Summer of Soderbergh)
Audio commentaries are like the answer to the test posed by Gene Siskel: a movie…
New Modes for Old Truths: Christopher Nolan’s Liars
Then if any one at all is to have the privilege of lying, the rulers of…
THE MARTIAN – Solving the Problem
Survival, Matt Damon’s character will tell the audience in a scene from the new Ridley…
Hollywood’s Jim Crow
I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with…