/ feb 2010

1. 02.23.2010 | 4:23 PM EDT

   Artful CGI. Avatar Can Suck It. This is not narrative filmmaking, simply some stunning architectural sequences created entirely with CGI. Sweet use of rack-focus and the texture work is amazing. Avatar can suck it. Great stuff at t...

/ dec 2009

1. 12.19.2009 | 4:23 EDT

   Best of the Decade: Films I can’t pretend that this is some erudite, New Yorker-style list of the decade’s very best films. Far from it. This is simply a list of the movies I most enjoyed this past decade. Some tr...

2. 12.19.2009 | 4:23 AM EDT

   Penned In, Pent Up + Put-Out:
   Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men At 83 years of age, the infallible Sidney Lumet wielded the newest HD technology to make 2007′s Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, a disturbing hell-ride that keeps furious pace next to other dar...

3. 12.01.2009 | 4:23 AM EDT

   Clever Villain, Handsome Devil “Y’all take a listen, you’ll hear a Deep Sound comin’ down from Bobby Peru.” An unforgettable bit of obliquely vulgar dialogue by Willem Dafoe in Wild at Heart. What cinephile among ...

/ nov 2009

1. 11.27.2009 | 4:23 EDT

   Delicious Demon: American Psycho Every time I walked past American Psycho in a book store, I was mesmerized by the cover: a vaguely victorian photograph of a sinister, steely-eyed yuppie. I knew it was a grisly book about a psycho se...

2. 11.18.2009 | 4:23 AM EDT

   Robbing Peter to Pay…Themselves The greedy scumbags over at Bank of America, Chase and other financial “insittutions” have run amok with their latest dastardly practices: shaking down responsible consumers by shamelessly...