Urban Honking

Get ready for Plazm’s Kickstarter campaign to help get our 20th Anniversary Issue to print! Win original paintings by Michael Brophy or Midori Hirose, digital Plazm #30 previews, an original Ed Fella, or play your cards right and Jon Raymond will name a character after you in an upcoming book or movie. Details will be […]

Ok, so I can see why Scarface is popular with rappers. The hard-won life lessons about the drug trade and making your way from poverty to kingpin, obvious parallel, same trope, same cliches. But why is the movie part of the American popular film lexicon? Lo, it is almost unwatchable; you know that is a […]

I know this blog is really me n’ Regardings reviews blog, but in case you missed it, bell hooks’ review of the Social Network was tacked into this collection of interview excerpts from her interview with Ms. Magazine: “I noticed when I talked with audiences about the representation of Asian women in the film The […]

1. Le Petit Soldat: Hilarious in light of my colleague’s recent remarks on Jean Luc Godard, but it must be pointed out that I share a Netflix queue with my husband, a pretentious film scholar, and that thus our queue is somewhat of a “mixed bag.” In terms of its being a mixture of films […]

Dear Reader, The Psmithian, though on occasion prone to verbose soliloquy and, now and then, a bit of high-horsed enthusiasm for matters not altogether popular in any sense, is indisputably a ‘blog of the people, plain and simple. Every atom belonging to us, dear reader, as good belongs to you. Our little grey cells are […]

1. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye About three years ago, maybe when I very-first got Netflix, I put about 200 movies on my cue right away, and right now I am hitting a spate of them–art documentaries and Brando films. The art docs always get pushed further down because I am always doing stuff like […]

This is a 1939 biopic of the eponymous president made by John Ford, who you may remember from such John Wayne movies as “The Searchers” and that one where they kill all the Indians (also true of “The Searchers”). The wisdom or lack thereof in making a biopic about easily the most iconographically fetishized president […]

Me live-blogging Jaw at some point. I will write about Jaw again. “I tell ya, the crime rate in New York’ll kill ya” I am telling you, “Jaws” is a very good film. I think that people who disagree with me should be taken out and maimed. A recent conversation with a professor reminded me […]

It was in the late spring of the year 2006, a very fine year by many accounts, that the author, whilst toweling the refreshed bod after a rigorous bout of exercise at the neighborhood Athletic Club, made the fatal wager that would result in this electronic publication, the Psmithian, entering into existence and thereby changing […]

Perhaps, you too, read Keith Richards unending and bestselling autobiography and grew to hate him? I think it’s the only logical response. I hate him now for being a) a terrible parent b) thinking we want the boring stories about why his favorite drug dealing bro from way back and only one page about motherfucking […]