To Blee or not to Blee? That is the question that preoccupies my conscience. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the outcry over bad jokes, the distastes, and the lack of quality of a thousand critiques of parody…
No, I do not already have a review for you. Yes, I know how it ends although I won’t reveal my sources for this. This isn’t a story about a profane, obscene porn flick that involves people who like to…
Insert preface here about what a great year for film 1998 was, restored hopes in Hollywood (with a whopping four major studio pictures on my top ten list), resolutions about seeing movies in a more timely fashion and being less…
Shane Meadows, first-time feature director of the new independent film TwentyFourSeven, grew up in the Midlands, England. At the age of twenty-five, he had already produced thirty-three short films before he tackled TwentyFourSeven. I spoke with Meadows about how he…
As some of you have probably noticed, my days of prolific writing about the movies waned this year. With 275 movies in eligibility for the Oscars this year, I managed to see less than 40 of them, and that includes…
7:05 am The alarm on my clock radio is sounded, and I’m already out of bed, excited. Today is my Big Day, the day when I get to interview Craig Shoemaker at the KLBJ radio station. Today is also a…
Mention of 1996 will always leave a sour taste in the mouths of critics. In a year with almost 300 films released, I only bothered to see fewer than 100 of them at the theater (typically I see half). And…
I think it was my brother’s idea. At some point in a motion picture production, a producer stops thinking about the myriad of problems on the set and starts thinking about whose head is going to roll at the end…
Exactly two years have passed since principal photography began on the film. Five years have gone by since the first draft of the script was written. And finally, September 27, 1996 marks the theatrical premiere of Ed’s Next Move, one…
‘I could’ve been a contender.’ – Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront, 1954 Jeopardy! is a bizarre game show. Whenever I watch it, I can’t help but be amazed: why is it that there’s always some contestant who doesn’t seem to…
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