Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Monster’s Ball
Monster Balls
Bad news for race relations as Hollywood validates the not-so-subliminal desires of the white man for the black woman.
Monster Balls
Bad news for race relations as Hollywood validates the not-so-subliminal desires of the white man for the black woman.
A Beautiful Delusion
A mathematician imagines that there is more to life than what can be touched, but it’s just his schizophrenia talking.
Like Father, Like Son?
Denzel Washington stars as George Herbert Walker Bush discovering the consequences of training your son to be the world’s traffic cop.
”Trainspotting is a contemporary Confessions that stops short at Book III. Renton understands about as much about himself at the end of the film as Augustine did in his early manhood at Carthage.” —”It’s Heavy, Man,” by J. A. Hanson, Regeneration Quarterly 2.4 (1996).
The Cinema IS the New Cathedral
The Truman Show as DSM V Category
When You Have to Run and Pee During the Film
True Grit and Canada
TIME magazine mock-ups in movies
The Princess Bride as Grading Rubric
Let’s Hope This Isn’t The Only Way Tree of Life Could Win
I’ll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless…
The Descendants on the Couch
Cinemetrics
“Nuked the Fridge” is the new “Jumped the Shark”
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, but You CAN Judge A Movie By Its Poster
These are the movies of The Moviegoer
Hollywood Star Makes Good
Synecdoche, New York
Truman Burbank, Call Your Office, STAT
Brent Plate Gets Even Closer to the Core of The Tree of Life
Life Imitates Art Which Imitates Life
Hell Burns for The Tree of Life
Slavoj Zizek Goes to See Transformers