Six, sometimes seven, but almost never less than five times a day I find myself biting through my fist as I craft a hateful message to WILK, the local talk radio station, to tell them how idiotic they are, but alas, I never send them. By the time I’ve gone through the half dozen revisions… Read More I Watched Jesus Camp and Now I’m a Little Scared
Beginning with the amazing flashback of the implementation of a pickle dispenser station, to the franchising debate and that rabble-rouser scene where our hero fights for corporate sponsorship, The Founder, like Steve Jobs of yesteryear, is the American success story I don’t know I want to see. Montages of sales pitches and investment schemes, monologues… Read More I Watched the Founder, Thought About Steve Jobs and Now I Want to Punch Myself in the Face
In an effort to fill the void digital has created, collecting physical media has become en vogue again. And with the current trend of 80s revival penetrating the culture, VHS tapes have come back from the dead. I have a soft spot for VHS tapes. I had a great collection during the days when I… Read More Analog Escapades in a Digital World
The Cinematic Equivalent Of An Adult Coloring Book might sound a bit harsh, but when you take a step back and look at Edgar Wright’s latest offering, Baby Driver, you’ll see it fits. The framework is there for something nice, and the mechanics are familiar and comforting, but the end product is artificial and only something… Read More Am I Just a Dick or Was Baby Driver a Dud?
Pick up any paper, turn on any news channel or just look at the wall of that Bernie-bro Facebook friend you unfollowed for being too damn exhausting and you’ll soon come to realize the world is looking to kill you. I know, it’s a hard pill to swallow, but don’t just hang it on the… Read More Progression Through Unlearning
The night before the news of his passing broke, my friend James messaged me that he had just finished watching A View to a Kill, the last of the Roger Moore era James Bond films. Having gotten the James Bond Collection on Bluray the week before, he had begun working his way through a rewatch… Read More The Gentleman Spy
The first time I can recall a face sticking to the name Charlie Hunnam in my often unreliable memory bank was during a marathon session of Sons of Anarchy following its second season on FX (before it shit the bed with an Ireland misadventure). I was desperate for something to watch at that very minute… Read More Finding a Place Between Dislike and Hate in The Lost City of Z
Now that Star Wars mania is gearing up for it’s annual bombardment of our senses, as it plasters every surface of the Earth with some incantation of Lucasfilm licensed images before the December release of Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, I thought it would be nice to look back on the days leading up to the a previous… Read More Midnight in the Garden of Good and Prequels
As you’ll come to discover, should you frequent this page with any form of regularity, I am an unapologetic fan of the James Bond franchise. Connery to Craig and even the comic that came before them, there is just something about the adventures of 007 that calls to me. But ask any of my fellow… Read More Die Another Daydream
For reasons still unclear to me, the decision was made to go and see LIFE at the cinema this past weekend, a decision that walked us past the 8’ tall cutout for GHOST IN THE SHELL (a movie that could be terrible overall, but promises to be a spoil of riches in the eye candy… Read More Take this LIFE and Screw
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