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- the nearest famous city middle
I’ve never seen an episode of MTV’s The Hills and since I’m not 17, have no idea why it is popular but this little ditty comparing The Hills to the ouevre of Michelangelo Antonioni is too delightful to pass up.
4. Modern architecture as shorthand for moral emptyness/alienation. The Season 3 premiere was unlike most episodes of […]
- jcvd is a 47 year old genius
You ever wonder what the definition of genius is?Well, wonder no more. It’s simply interviewing the legendary Jean-Claude Van Damme about his oeuvre, which the Onion’s AV Club did and killed. Or rather, JCVD killed. Whatever the case, the definition of genius has been killed. Defined. Over.For example, JCVD on scene stealing in Breakin’:
I didn’t know the […]
- obama is a bad movie
It struck me last night that the Iowa caucus is political world’s equivalent of Memorial Day, the traditional beginning of the summer movie season.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the tentpole, big budget releases, John Edwards is the There Will be Blood type of independent film, and the rest of the field make up the […]
- the devil inside
In lieu of America’s Most Smartest Model, our normal Sunday night programming, Mary Milan and I took in The Exorcism of Emily Rose last night on TNT. It’s a weird movie, half courtroom drama, half horror movie. It plays sort of like the Scopes Monkey Trial for demonic possession; Inherit the Wind meets The Exorcist.
About three-quarters of […]
- a star studded evening
Last night, at the Century City Apple Store testing out Leopard, a gaggle of 13-year olds ran into the store and took over the iMac next to me. The queen bee got on her cell phone, “I JUST….WE JUST…CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY…GULFSTREAM RESTAURANT…HE’S SOOOOOO FINE!”
*Squeal*Hang up*Repeat*
She must have done it about five times while jockeying […]
- malickolia
As I wait for my Amazon order of The New World and the Criterion Collection’s Days of Heaven DVDs to arrive in the next few days, there is news of Terrence Malick’s next movie Tree of Life with Heath Ledger and Sean Penn.
Depending on which incarnation of the script he is working from, it could […]
- bastille day
I was recently asked to write a little ditty about all the films that prominently feature Los Angeles as a character in this year’s AFI Los Angeles Film Festival (11/1-11/11). One of the films I covered was Lynch, a documentary about - you guessed it - David Lynch.
It begins and ends with references to […]
