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I recently received in the mail the limited edition 2-disc score album for John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China. Take note that it's a limited pressing: There are only 3000 of them. That means that, if you want one of your own, you had better get on… Continue reading
In honor of this weekend's New York Comic Convention, I'm going to take an opportunity to briefly recommend a couple cool comics that I have come across over the past year. More as I discover [or am introduced to] them. The Alcoholic From Vertigo Comics came… Continue reading
"How come he's always got that weird smile on his face, like he's got secrets that no one else knows?" Understand that the above line of dialogue is not from Bullitt, with Steve McQueen. Instead we're talking today about Bullet, from 1996, starring Mickey… Continue reading
"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution." – Bill Hicks. The other night Letterman had Mary Hicks on his show. Mary Hicks is the great comedian Bill Hicks's mom. Letterman had her on because of the fifteen-year anniversary of Bill's death this… Continue reading
Taken is the movie, just released in the U.S., in which the great actor Liam Neeson takes the Steven Seagal role of an ex-spy who moves to Los Angeles to be closer to his teenaged daughter, only to tear onto the path of vengeance and death-bringing when she… Continue reading
Not to repeat myself, but I think the movie is great. I think Aronofsky's contribution is comparatively underrated, as are the contributions of the writer, cinematographer, costumers, and the locations department, among others. I think Mickey Rourke is on a… Continue reading
It actually took me a couple extra days to get to see Notorious, the cinematic life story of Christopher Wallace, The Notorious B.I.G.. My own fault, really – naively thinking that I could just slip into the theater, in New York, in Times Square, on opening… Continue reading
So anyway, a couple days later, I was able to get around to fulfilling my plans to see Notorious. Now that I've seen it, though, I'm not entirely sure I ought to have bothered. That's not to hate on the movie – I didn't think it was remotely terrible, and was… Continue reading
Happy Inauguration Day, America! No matter which way we voted last November, let's all be good patriots and hope for the best for our country now. But that's politics, and this is a movie website. So now, in honor of our new President, here are the definitive… Continue reading
I try to watch at least one movie a day if there's any way I can make the time. Keeps me sharp, on the edge, where I gotta be. So in the last fourteen days, I've watched almost that many movies. A good chunk of those movies are leftovers from 2008, and… Continue reading
A movie that I saw for the first time in 2008, and would like to recommend, is a rarity that was released by the great Criterion Collection on DVD – White Dog. As you couldn't possibly have guessed just from the title and the poster image I linked to, this is… Continue reading
Truth be told, I don't get the chance to follow that much television – episodic TV has gotten so dense and narratively sophisticated that most of the shows worth following demand one-hundred-percent involvement. It probably says something about which shows I… Continue reading
