Filmmakers, I am begging you to stop making “lone gunman/shadowy assassin has to kill 300 people in a single night […]
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 2006: Fay Grim
Rage against the dying of the light, ya jagoff.
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 2005: Constantine
When it comes to horror imagery, one person’s terror is another person’s boredom.
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 2004: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
I truly don’t know where I stand here in 2021 in regards to Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson.
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 2002: Adaptation
In which many actors put in iconic performances (Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Nic Cage, and Nic Cage) and I squander […]
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 2003: A Mighty Wind
Because I didn’t use This Is Spinal Tap for 1984 and have regretted it for months.
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The 2001 essay was always going to be about 9/11 and Tolkien.
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 2000: Wonder Boys
“No offense, Professor Tripp, but you look kinda crappy.”
5 Thoughts on… Dracula 2000 (2000)
Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches and slam in the back of my… Virgin Megastore?
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 1999: Ravenous
<sighs with embarrassment at repurposing The Silence of the Lambs in a Ravenous essay> I’m having an old friend for […]
5 Thoughts on… The Four Seasons (1981)
Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, and friends boat, ski, stir fry, and shout their way into middle age.
40 Movies About Noises and Consequences, 1998: Shakespeare in Love
It is no Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, that’s for sure.