Predator: State of the Union
If by some divine chance the gods smiled on you like they smiled on me then you must have, at some point in your life, been a little boy. I’m sure little girls had it made too, but from first-hand experience I can attest that being a little boy was golden-euphoria. And being a little [...]
Read MoreJ.C. Rises: The Return of John Carpenter
PREAMBLE: John Carpenter has been so influential to my life and has entertained and engaged me to such a tremendous degree that I’ll attempt to merely relay this bit of news without allowing myself to elaborate my love into a dissertation-sized jerk-off piece. Another day. A couple of “Masters of Horror” episodes not withstanding, John [...]
Read MoreWhat Happens When Shady Degenerates Get Their Filthy Hands on Methamphetamine?
I was tipped of by my coworker Chris of a post over on Our PDX that mentions a new film, produced in Portland, called “Trucker Speed Hooligans.” It’s a fantastic coincidence as we too are located in Portland, and in the film game. But I wouldn’t chock it up to anything more than coincidence, and [...]
Read More7:20 Tomorrow Night, I’m gonna get Hungover.
First off, let me get this right off my chest, I happen to be slightly bitter that my little brother has gotten to see Away We Go already, no more than two minutes before I opened this site to sit down and write (Unfortunate Rhyme (which will someday be the lead character in a white rap pseudo biopic pot comedy [...]
Read MoreAway We Go: Earned Emotion
Sam Mendes’ new film is billed as a comedy but it plumbs the depths of melancholy as much as it pursues the funny bone. The presence of melancholy shouldn’t be a surprise as he’s built his career around the emotion (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road). The surprising part is that he’s making [...]
Read MoreHerzog Unlocks Cage: Crack Pipes at the Ready
I always have trouble sitting idly by as the masses ridicule Nicolas Cage. I think it’s the consistency at which he headlines the most godawful shit to hit the multiplexes that really gets people’s collective goat. If he made one clunker every couple years it would be harder to maintain such an active level of [...]
Read MoreTerminator Salvation: A Cinematic Milestone
In my decades of cinematic adventures, on countless occasions, I’ve checked show times, and decided upon seeing a flick, and I hoped in the ride, and head down, watched said flick, and went on l-i-v-i-n. Today, I decided to see the new Terminator movie, on a whim, and like I had done countless times, hoped [...]
Read MoreIt Was a Rendezvous: A High Speed Tour of Paris, 1976
I was turned onto this by my boss, a 1976 short filmed titled “C’était un rendez-vous” or “It was a Rendevous”- which follows a car driving at ridiculous speeds through the streets of Paris at 5:30 in the morning. It features a continuous, 9-minute shot from a gyro-stablized bumper-mount. The director, Claude Lelouch was already [...]
Read MoreMy summer at the Cinema: Predisposition
So here’s the thing, last weekend, two movies came out, pretty darned close on my estimate for X-men, though I was totally wrong on Ghost’s. I noticed something, having seen both of them last weekend, going into it, I thought I would probably like X-men, didn’t think it would be anything special though. I was [...]
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