Film and TV

I have just begun a new workout, while listening to faux old-style androgynous side-splaying music, I take a 10-pound weight in each hand and alternate pushing the weight straight out in front of me turning it counter-clockwise and pulling it back in close to my chest. I’m sure this has been packaged and completed countless […]

image copyright Fox Searchlight During the opening scene of Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky, I remember already thinking to myself – with the tact of Louis C.K. – “That nigger makes the SHIT out of a movie!” There is a great indulgence in his movies tempered only by his own thoughtful control, using the medium […]

copyright Sony Classics I found myself suddenly capable of emitting deadly lasers from my eyes on the way home from the Paris Theatre after having viewed The Illusionist. I believe the incident to be purely coincidental… …but I did certainly find Sylvain’s Chomet‘s new aimated film a fine, fine time… While his previous film, The […]

Upon the highway of my Netflix queue, hot new releases have come and gone, but the Burt Reynolds classic The Cannonball Run – the crown of a genre to which I am currently drawn – still sits there, mocking me with an expected availability of “A Very Long Wait“. It stands to reason that there […]