All Things To All People
Film & DVD Reviews
I learned that the movie Thunderbolt and Lightfoot existed in May of 2010. I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico visiting some friends and we had gone to a local video rental store and each of us chose a movie to rent. I was…
The album version of The Point, Harry Nilsson‘s children’s fable, was an integral part of my childhood. I have many fond memories of listening to that record with my dad, thrilling to the story of Oblio, born pointless in a world where…
I remember visiting SeaWorld as a kid. I grew up only a few hours north of San Diego, so that’s the park where we would go. SeaWorld was never quite as much fun as a trip to DisneyLand or Knotts Berry Farm or Magic…
I first saw Pink Flamingos when I had just turned 14, and it changed my life. There was a sensibility to it and a humor that had existed only in my head before that, and seeing it externalized was a revelation. Its…
This year, over the course of Brian De PalMarch (which stretched into Brian De PalmApril), I watched every single one of Brian De Palma‘s films, including those I had seen before, his early shorts (the only two that weren’t impossible to find),…
Lost Season 4 Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof, J.J. Abrams Any Which Way You Can (1980) Buddy Van Horn There A re a few things happening on the island, and just as crazy things happening off the island with the Oceanic 6 in…
There are the 50 Best Movies I saw for the first time, or practically the first time, in 2011. There are a few I had technically seen before, but either couldn’t remember them at all, or felt that I experienced them in…
Last month, I celebrated one of my favorite directors by declaring November Paul Verhovember. During Verhovember, I watched the only feature film of his I hadn’t seen (Business Is Business), rewatched some I hadn’t seen in awhile (Turkish Delight, Flesh+Blood, and Total…
Lost Season 3 Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof, J.J. Abrams 10.0 Man whose piss do I gotta drink to make this ambien come on stronger. Ok, so, Jack Kate and Sawyer are on the Other idland tra[[ed up, and they meet Juliet and…
Randy, Chuck and Bob are at it again — the Residents’ most recent DVD release, Randy’s Ghost Stories is another must-have from the Talking Light project. The Talking Light tour is mostly a greatest-hits type of set with stories interspersed throughout. The…