Children of Men: The Future Is Just Around the Corner

Children of Men: The Future Is Just Around the Corner

I’ve recently been battling my way through the emotional bruising that is Sony’s 2013 game-changing game “The Last of Us,” and I thought it was…

Blade Runner: Do You Like Our Owl?

Blade Runner: Do You Like Our Owl?

It opens with fire. The flames bloom out along the center of the screen, red and gold against a midnight world where all the stars…

Planet Terror: Best Damn Barbecue in Texas (Review)

Planet Terror: Best Damn Barbecue in Texas (Review)

I’ve concluded, upon rewatching Robert Rodriguez’s blood boob and balls fest Planet Terror for the umpteenth time, that the reason the film succeeds is because…

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Or, The Twenty-Something Tango (Review)

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Or, The Twenty-Something Tango (Review)

What is it with girls and tea? I’ve wondered this for a long time. I never actually asked it out loud – it’s not really…

Second Opinion: 50/50 – Or, A Shakespearean Jester Addresses Cancer

Second Opinion: 50/50 – Or, A Shakespearean Jester Addresses Cancer

Here’s the thing about a film like 50/50. It’s perfect. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily the best film ever made – that honor, in my…

No Country For Old Men: A New Western for a New World (Review)

No Country For Old Men: A New Western for a New World (Review)

No Country For Old Men is one of those films that gets better every time I watch it. I’ve held a long standing relationship with…

Big Fish: Concerning Fathers, Sons and Magic

Big Fish: Concerning Fathers, Sons and Magic

  “Fate has a way of circlin’ back on a man,” Jenny muses at one point late in Tim Burton’s 2003 film Big Fish. Fittingly,…

The Guard: In Bruges This Is Not

The Guard: In Bruges This Is Not

“What a beautiful fuckin’ day,” Sergeant Gerry Boyle says. The coast of Western Ireland is gray and bleak behind him, and the sea is flat…

Samsara: A Meditation on Balance

Samsara: A Meditation on Balance

  ~ Samsara opens with a dance. The dance is gaudy, glinting, traditional, uncomfortable, and yet somehow welcoming. What follows after is a brief introduction…

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