Not Just Movies

After seeing the howling bad The Fifth Estate , I got to wondering about how Hollywood repeatedly and utterly fails to comprehend the Intern...

Francis Ford Coppola's post-2007 comeback is vexing, bewildering, esoteric and, to these eyes, his most exciting work since the 1970s. F...

With The Dark Knight Rises  in theaters, what better time to examine the film that, after Memento , proved to Warner Bros thatChristopher No...

[The following is an entry in the monthly Favorite Directors Blogathon. A master list of my choices for all 12 filmmakers (with links update...

My blogging buddy Carson Lund recently told me about a meme started by Loren Rosson that highlights a favorite director each month and rank...

So,  various bloggers I read and like have decided to address various, wait for it, blind spots in their movie viewing in 2012. I conside...

The last year-end post, I swear. Last year I did a similar round-up separate to my best-of list, but this year I had even more reason to han...

I fell shamefully behind on reading when I went to college, first overburdened by an engineering course load then spending so much time writ...

So I'm a guest at the Mad Hatter's The Dark of the Matinee today for his recurring series "Falling for the First Time," in...

Here's my contribution for Fandango Groovers ' blogathon "A Life in Movies," in which bloggers choose their favorite films...

I've seen this même going around the blogs lately, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Unsurprisingly, picking a favorite for some lett...

Per The Sheila Variations : In light of Jafar Panahi’s open letter to Isabella Rossellini, the Berlinale, and all of us and his plea for ar...

*Update: I've placed links at the top of the post so readers don't have to scroll down to find them. Each post focuses on a chapter ...

Though my younger sister has always been given to drawing, painting, scrapbooking and various other forms of artistic endeavors, I have neve...

Last year, I threw some miscellaneous, mostly nonsense "awards" at the end of my Top 15 list, but this year's batch of recogni...

It's been nothing short of a wacky week for films and the people who love them, and it's only Wednesday. Yesterday, I checked my ema...

Before I start this, I should go ahead and address something, because soon what few people visit this site long enough to read anything but ...

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/05/dollhouse-second-season.html Look at it. Just look at it. I resigned myself to the inevitability of Dollhouse...