“There’s nothing wrong with mustaches, except in the summertime when they get in the way of eatin’ ice cream cones.” Imagine that phrase uttered by a middle-aged, mustached, cowboy serial killer standing ominously behind the DJ table of a techno club just moments before he opens fire on a warehouse full of innocent young ravers. [...]
Lenny isn’t your average incarcerated crook. He’s a young, good-looking guy with some serious connections on the outside. His father, Armando, is an extremely wealthy drug kingpin who wants nothing more than to see his son set free. The $2 million reward he offers to anyone who successfully breaks his kid out of prison [...]
Experiencing a good Nicolas Cage movie is like witnessing a total solar eclipse; it’s rare, and if you’re lucky enough to catch one, it’s spectacular. Combine the eccentric Cage at his bizarre best with the notoriously weird genius of luminary director, Werner Herzog, and you’ve got pseudo-noir masterpiece of epic, hallucinogenic proportions. “The Bad Lieutenant: Port [...]
Oprah Winfrey commands the attention and loyalty of millions of adoring disciples. The books she selects for her famous book club enjoy unprecedented boosts in sales. The medical remedies and social taboos featured on her television show immediately spike on internet searches following a broadcast. The media mogul even helped elect the nation’s very first [...]
“Journey with our Fearless Explorer into the carnivorous depths of the Feminine Mind! Here is where fantasy becomes reality -and women come easy. But BEWARE! Keeping them is another story. For within the womb of desire lurk MADNESS and the seeds of DREADFUL FOLLIES! Fetish, Fear, & Folly! – all with an undercurrent of unsettled [...]
Thump… Creeeak….. THUMP! Fear. The invaluable evolutionary tool that has enabled our survival of predation from prehistoric menaces like the saber-toothed tiger and aided our scattered tribes into eventual planet domination and thriving globalization has become all but useless. Of course, true danger still exists, but how many times a day, or even in a [...]
“Its the missing piece of the puzzle that I didn’t know I was looking for.” Well I’m finally getting back into the swing of things. This whole sleeping, eating, sleeping, and eating a little bit more has really taken a toll on me the past month or so. So over a month ago I went [...]
The battle between artiste and critic had long been raging by the time English playwright, Robert Green, criticized the work of a promising newcomer named William Shakespeare in the late 16th century, writing: “…for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he [...]
DIFF 2012 Reviews: ‘Cinema Six,’ ‘Compliance,’ ‘Faith, Love and Whiskey’
Things I Don’t Understand (2011)
Jiří Trnka: Animation Retrospective
Lowlights of Cinélatino
Brevity Pays Off
‘A Secret World’ at Cinélatino
‘Future Lasts Forever’ at Sofia
Two Treatments of Italy’s Fascist Past
‘The Leopard’: novel, opera, but above all, film
We’ll always have ‘Casablanca’
