Category Archives: Movies
Dennis Hopper
The Middle Word in Life by Matt Zoller Seitz – Moving Image Source. Beautiful.
Narco Cinema
A good Vice piece on the Mexican film genre of narco cinema. From: Dangerous Minds | Vice: Mexican Narco Cinema.
Shooting the Super Bowl
I love the Wes Anderson and Werner Herzog ones.
There’s got a be a movie in this…
BBC NEWS | UK | UK troops in huge turbine mission Two thousand British troops in southern Afghanistan have successfully transported a huge hydroelectric power turbine through Taleban territory. In one of their biggest operations in Helmand, a convoy of … Continue reading
Wow
A.O. Scott likes Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay But they’re not stupid, and to the extent that the movie is, its idiocy serves the cause of good sense and intelligence. And no, I’m not smoking anything.
iTunes Movie Rentals to Europe
Apple sizes up Europe’s movie-rental market – International Herald Tribune: After introducing a new online film rental service for American consumers last week, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, said he was “dying” to expand the program to international … Continue reading
Cohen Chic
The New York Times has a nice photoshoot mixing together many of the actors and actresses and characters from many films by the Cohen brothers.
Congress vs the Courts
I just watched this spontaneous discussion about fair use with Brian de Palma’s latest film and was struck by one man’s comment that fair users laws are bad and this is something that will hopefully be eventually fixed in the … Continue reading
SiCKO
I just saw SiCKO and was quite impressed by it. Moore has been criticized for his stunts in the film, especially the Cuba trip, and for painting an overly-rosy view of other countries, but I don’t think he’s really off … Continue reading
Vigilantism
You know there’s something sick in American society when not one but two movies are released about vigilantes tracking down and killing the people that hurt them.