I Saw The Unknown Known
Many of the early reviews of Errol Morris's The Unknown Known (which I saw just a little while ago thanks to iTunes) compared it to Morris's The Fog Of War. The comparison…
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Happy Campers of the Third Reich
Shorpy dug up this Heinrich Hoffmann photo of Hitler Youth on a camping excursion from 1938. Smiles and swastikas are an uneasy mix at best. Hoffmann, incidentally, was Adolf Hitler's…
I’ll Let Someone Else Tell You For the 11,341st Time: The US is Not A Police State
Being a blogger quickly teaches you how poor a weapon blogging is for killing off zombie ideas. Still, try we must. A little bit ago, I addressed myself to Doctor Ben…
The Things I’ve Seen (in March)
My movie diet was a little thin in March, but there were still good titles in there, a couple of disappointments, and one film that caused DEEP HURTING. [youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjCjgjk9n0o&w=420&h=315] The…
Judging A Book By Its Cover
I don't know too much about Lion and Leopard, the book I just received from Dactyl Review, but I do know this. The cover is damn handsome. I'll be reviewing this for…
We Riffed Putin
Put Vladimir on a boat with a couple of bikini babes and a martini and we're in business. //storify.com/snowdenlit/riffing-crimea/embed//storify.com/snowdenlit/riffing-crimea.js[View the story "Riffing Crimea" on Storify]
Was Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut An Improvement?
I've done a few posts on this blog about the possibility of rewriting certain bad movies into better movies. I've never bothered to try the same exercise on a movie…
What Are My Ten Favorite Film Comedies?
Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum listed his top movie comedies, prefacing the list by saying, "They say you can tell more about a person by what he laughs at than…
Fred Phelps Is Dead
Over at Slate, Tyler Lopez ponders the question of how the LGBT community should handle his death: Some have suggested picketing Phelps’ funeral, much as his church protested at thefunerals of…