Wednesday, May 16, 2012
True Grit and Canada
Remember when we said that “True Grit is the latest film to convincingly demonstrate that the fate of humanity lies in the hands of 14-year old homeschooled girls?” Here’s further proof, now with 12-year old girls helping out as well.
Friday, April 27, 2012
TIME magazine mock-ups in movies
In honor of our newest piece by Mark LeClair, here are several other faux covers of TIME magazine that have appeared in cinema over the decades.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Princess Bride as Grading Rubric
Inconceivable: Lines from The Princess Bride That Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Let’s Hope This Isn’t The Only Way Tree of Life Could Win
Leaf From Tree of Life Frontrunner for Best Actor Oscar
Monday, January 23, 2012
I’ll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless…
...Cuz everyone knows, that’s how you get famous.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Descendants on the Couch
... of The Last Psychiatrist. You may not be a terrible person, but you may be better able to understand why you liked American Beauty and Indecent Proposal so much.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Cinemetrics
This is what movies look like in one vibrating, colorized, sliced and diced symbolic image: interesting.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
“Nuked the Fridge” is the new “Jumped the Shark”
Straight from the horse’s mouth.
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, but You CAN Judge A Movie By Its Poster
13 Movie poster patterns and what they tell us about the likelihood of what’s in the film. Unless of course, the film has Tilda Swinton…
Saturday, October 15, 2011
These are the movies of The Moviegoer
In order of their appearance in Walker Percy’s 1961 novel: Stage Coach, The Third Man, Panic in the Streets, It Happened One Night, Red River, Holiday, The Oxbow Incident, All Quiet On the Western Front, Fort Dobbs, Dark Waters, The Young Philadelphians. And this is the conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its publication.
