Considering our admiration of and occasional passion for genre movies, we celebrate the holiday weekend with a poem. Followed by a particularly timely trailer from the film Grindhouse.
Ode to Thanksgiving
For the crackers, you cut the cheese.
For the meal, you flipped the bird.
You ate away most of the day,
and your drunk uncle decided to stay.
In the […]
If you’re planning to see Wes Anderson’s ambitious Fantastic Mr. Fox this weekend (below, with Bill Murray), you’ll want to check out Anderson’s interview on NPR’s Fresh Air. We’ll periodically recommend the show and, simply put, it’s one of the greatest forums to learn about writers’ and directors’ approaches, passions and personalities. Folks seem to […]
by Norm Schrager, posted 11.24.09
1.5 / 5 stars
When a movie about shallow people is equally as shallow, what’s the point? That’s the burning question for director Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly), and writers Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki, in their scattershot adaptation of Ellis’ interconnected short stories. It’s Los Angeles 1983 and everyone is vacant, […]
Whether you prefer the large scope of Milk or the quiet terror of Elephant, it’s undeniable that Gus Van Sant has an indie sensibility regardless of a film’s size or volume. With recent titles, that sensibility has death or murder in its midst: the two films mentioned above, Paranoid Park and Last Days. Van Sant’s […]
by Norm Schrager, posted 11.19.09
4 / 5 stars
From Coming Home and Platoon to Jarhead and Stop-Loss, it sometimes seems like every angle of the war experience has been told in recent decades.Then a film like The Messenger quietly surfaces, not only illustrating a unique, lesser-known aspect of war, but doing it exceedingly well.
The Messenger doesn’t […]
