Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter is one of the finest artistic middle fingers ever made, an absurdist take on the yakuza film that makes delibera...
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Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter is one of the finest artistic middle fingers ever made, an absurdist take on the yakuza film that makes delibera...
[This is my first post for my Blind Spots 2012 choices] Previously familiar with the legendary pair of Josef von Sternberg and muse Marlene ...
Jang Hun's The Front Line liberally takes from Saving Private Ryan , but then so does every modern war movie about a past conflict (and...
Like a Bret Easton Ellis novel as written by John Kennedy Toole, Martin Amis' Money is a savage gutting of the Reagan era as seen throu...
BBC's simply fantastic Sherlock series inspired me to revisit the Sherlock Holmes stories, and I was happy to stumble across some great...
Nabokov's Pale Fire may be even better than his Lolita . A total put-on of a work—consisting of a poem by one "John Shade" an...
The trait that links all four Mission: Impossible movies, each helmed by a different director of wildly differing stylistic sensibilities, ...
So, last week, Ryan McNeil of The Matinee asked me to do a podcast with him on War Horse and Steven Spielberg in general. I happily agreed...
In an age where "FAKE!" greets even the most honest video, the almost-too-consistent dramatic ups and downs of this extended talki...
Jackie Brown is one of my favorite movies, and I've been meaning to write a full post on it forever. I wrote a brief piece for my love...
Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel/short story collection/who-cares A Visit from the Goon Squad has racked up enough accolade...
Weekend (Andrew Haigh, 2011) Occasionally a bit precious in its cinematography (one too many woozy shots and obvious visual cues), Andrew Ha...
So, various bloggers I read and like have decided to address various, wait for it, blind spots in their movie viewing in 2012. I conside...