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THE SAGA OF A BURNING MAN: MANIAC COP 2 21 Aug 2013 | 02:23 am
Maniac Cop 2 (1990; William Lustig) is mostly disposable junk—it has that signature blue steel sheen once fetishized by John Carpenter and James Cameron and a script that, to my tin ears and eyes a...
FOR CHARLIE ON HIS 16th BIRTHDAY: THOUGHTS ON A SEANCE AND OTHER CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 12 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I saw, for the very first time, Bryan Forbes’ adaptation of Mark McShane’s novel Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), and as it was designed to do, it chilled me...
THE MURIELS HALL OF FAME: JEAN RENOIR'S THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) 24 Jul 2013 | 08:31 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Paul Clark and Steve Carlson have but two new inductees into the Muriels Hall of Fame that have yet to be announced, one perhaps an obvious choic...
APOCALYPSE CANCELLED: PACIFIC RIM 23 Jul 2013 | 03:50 am
For a $200-million movie about robots beating up on generic giant monsters (and that's literally all it's about), the biggest surprise about Pacific Rim is how underimagined it all feels. This is espe...
MA’AM, THE DOG ATE MY COMPUTER! My Incredibly, Inexcusably Tardy Responses to Miss Jean Brodie’s Modestly Magnificent, Matriarchally Manipulative Spri... 18 Jul 2013 | 10:56 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Well, nothing I can say could possibly excuse my unprecedented tardiness in turning in my ...
INTRODUCING THE MURIELS HALL OF FAME 11 Jul 2013 | 10:43 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE One might reasonably assume that a professed love of movies wouldn’t be exclusive of any era, that a movie fan would be open as much to the jo...
JEFF NICHOLS' MUDDY WATERS: MUD (2013) 11 Jul 2013 | 10:06 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE On the heels of his debut feature, Shotgun Stories(which I loved) and his more widely seen follow-up, Take Shelter (which I liked, with some rese...
THE TRAILERS FROM HELL TRIVIA CONTEST DAY FIVE: BEYOND-THE-PALE EDITION 28 Jun 2013 | 07:17 pm
We made it. A whole week without new shots of Trailers from Hell has been endured and survived, and now only the weekend needs to be navigated before the curtains rises on Trailers from Hell version 2...
THE TRAILERS FROM HELL TRIVIA CONTEST DAY FOUR: HEAD-SPLITTING EDITION 27 Jun 2013 | 12:02 pm
Zeroing in on the unveiling of Trailers from Hell Version 2.0, we find ourselves also zeroing in on the climax of the Trivia from Hell Contest, and today is when things start to get truly hellish. If ...
THE TRAILERS FROM HELL TRIVIA CONTEST DAY THREE: TEETH-GRINDING EDITION 26 Jun 2013 | 11:10 am
A bit more sweat expected from the Trivia from Hell Contest as we enter into Day Three. Ever so slightly more demanding than the past two days, the gauntlet is being thrown down with this latest batch...
