Category Archives: Opinion

ABC’s new rip-off of AMC’s brilliant “Mad Men” is called “Pan Am,” and focuses only on the hysterically-accurate period details that, in “Mad Men,” are but the window dressing upon narratives of astonishing depth that flay open American anxieties like … Continue reading →

I’m really on a tear with these random movies of the 80’s and 90’s that I never saw when they were real. I was always under the impression that “Domestic Disturbance” was a film starring Ray Liotta that I snuck … Continue reading →

My friend Matt Kessler, fellow Almodovar obsessive, called and demanded we see The Skin I Live In this past weekend and I was initially hesitant because I had only read bad reviews and everyone saying oh, it’s so not him, … Continue reading →

In honor of Occupy Wall Street, and in honor of a really bad mood I was in yesterday, I went to the movie store and allowed myself to grab the first two movies that appealed to me, one of which … Continue reading →

Last night after watching a college football game and pondering why exactly I find college sports so unethical and grody, and then getting bored, and then getting interested again when the guy broke his arm horribly in slow-mo and all … Continue reading →

I just reviewed the new Lars Von Trier for The Daily, and hopefully I can link it here. I read a couple other reviews and I thought this one was my fave, and I almost agree: “Of course, the root … Continue reading →

I saw that! I would say this movie has the best pre-opening-credits-sequence-followed-by-opening-credits that I have seen in quite some time. Ryan Gosling plays a guy with no name who just drives. He’s just really good at driving cars. He drives … Continue reading →