The Babadook
Remember in the Babadook? Amelia spends most of the moving crying and screaming, on the constant edge of a violent, […]
More, Italicized, and More, Sans Italics: Nightcrawler and the Two Kinds of Need
As the third act of Nightcrawler begins, Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) screams at his reflection within a bathroom mirror, then […]
Bean Bath
“It needs to be more…palpable,” Ann-Margret says in her breathy voice. Ken, Pete, and the second AD Gary all lean […]
MS Gives A Brief History Of That Scene In Apocalypse Now That Should Never Have Made It To The Screen
Francis was pissed when he saw fat, bloated, not caring he was a Godfather star, Brando. He said, “Fuck it. […]
Zingers, Politics, and Movie Brawls: An In-Depth Analysis of Cultural Upheaval Among Disenfranchised American Males as Direct Result of 1950s French Existentialist Cinema
I think Josh Brolin as W. in W. could beat up Sam Rockwell as W. from that sequel to The […]
Jason Patric in After Dark My Sweet as Kevin “Collie” Collins
Nobody saw it.Nobody saw him actinglike he was actinglike he was actinglike he was crazy. The drifter escaped from an […]
5 Steps To Becoming A Meme
Lessons from infamous “What Do You Want?” rant by Noah Calhoun/Ryan Gosling in The Notebook 1. Choose a location diametrically […]
Willem Dafoe
You know, I’m something of a scientist myself.Said Willem DafoeCUT!Said Sam RaimiThere were small wet flowers falling from Willem Dafoes […]
Spitting Mad Spivey
No, not Spidey, silly you! Drexl Spivey from True Romance. You know that mad ride of a movie that Tarantino […]
The Chavalier Imitation, Augmented, for Date Stamp and Bald Pate
How to work your way past officialdom, Marx Brothers style. First: steal yourself a passport. Not any passport, though. Maurice […]
Until Marissa Cooper threw that chair in the pool
I thought you couldn’t be sad in California. I thought the sun and sand forbade it:No Shirt No Shoes No […]
“I wouldn’t mind if it burned me, George.”
Now there’s some peppery nuts on screen dialogue for the pandemic age! Expertly delivered by Agnes Moorehead as Fanny Amberson […]
Pale Moonlight
You watch the moon On through another night and you might Understand some things are given to us even When […]
Ode To a Geological Formation
“No one sits like this rock sits You rock, rock.” Those were the immortal words of environmentalist poet Albert Markovski, […]
In Flanders Revealed
It’s been decades since the House of Flanders fell, but the memory of the wreckage remains, of the aftermath of […]
The author watches man defy you stars (or; Shakespeare watches Leo lose his shit)
Thou know not name for synth or gun; not yet –Hawaiian passed you by; the New World old, Inflection nigh […]