This bit of remake hysteria will make my dad spin in his grave, and he’s not even dead yet. Some day, far into the future, when my dear old pop has been laid peacefully to rest, he’ll start spinning, retroactively, simply from the absolute wrong-headedness of it. All because Cinematical and a host of others [...]

I’ve been lazy blogging about the writers’ strike this week, primarily because reading all of the news about it has alternately transfixed and depressed me into near silence. As a former failed screenwriter myself, I’m entirely sympathetic to the efforts and concerns of the writers – definitely more so than any other faction involved. At [...]

I find it very difficult to get through most of Matthew McConaughey’s movies. Sure, there’s a Lone Star in there, a Dazed and Confused, but in general I find his delivery, his smug persona and his general smarminess to be real cinematic turn-offs.
So it’s with an exuberant sense of “bleh” that I read a piece [...]