The Onion AV Club started a conversation that got me thinking about the pop culture that I deliberately avoid, that I want to know as little about as possible. I…
After the Vietnam War, America hankered for the simple pleasure of watching a working class guy risk violent death for no good reason...hmm...maybe there's a better way of putting that.…
Reading Roger Ebert's reviews was always a pleasure, and I knew when they started slowing down that there was cause to worry. While I learned a great deal about movies…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Directors Joel and Ethan Coen, the academy award winning auteurs behind True Grit, No Country For Old Men, and Fargo, may soon return to their midwestern roots. Through their production…
Only yesterday I was making a few suggestions about what the Summer of Long Knives cover should be. Basically, I suggested a theme and left it at that. The cover…
I just finished watching Errol Morris's Tabloid, which tells the story, or stories, of Joyce McKinney, the former Miss Wyoming who was accused of kidnapping and raping the Mormon missionary to…
I'm still picking at parts of Summer of Long Knives. Some of it feels necessary, but a good deal of it is neurosis. It's usually at this point that I become convinced…
--Last night, thanks to Netflix, I communed once more with the Brothers Zucker. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBuAfIjsFVk&w=420&h=315] How silly can you get? --Actually, the San Francisco 49ers answered that question during press week.…
I just caught Jack Klugman in the Twilight Zone episode "A Game of Pool". It reminded me of why I miss Klugman, one of the finest character actors in a generation of…