Archive for category: Cinema

‘Ahh, Europe’s too foofy. How ’bout we visit Robert in Africa?’    (2013.02.21)

‘The Dead Boys’ Club’ & ‘Alkali, Iowa’    (2012.10.18)

1990s homosexualist short films hold up quite well onliné: The Dead Boys’ Club; Alkali, Iowa

‘Network’    (2012.10.11)

“Hi, I’m Diana Christensen, a racist lackey of the imperialist ruling circles”

The Hart/Freeman/Simm Axis    (2012.07.23)

The Ian Hart/Martin Freeman/John Simm Axis of British actors

‘Poison’    (2012.04.17)

Twentieth-anniversary edition

Dour, contemptuous Piers Handling’s cinema funplex strangely unprofitable    (2012.04.16)

Why might the TIFF Bell Lightbox be losing money? What else do you expect from an organization run by dour, contemptuous Piers Handling?

Who, one might ask, is the man?    (2012.02.04)

They’re laying it on a bit thick presenting Alexander Skarsgård as some kind of manly idol in Straw Dogs

Ideals of transportation    (2012.02.04)

In Hopscotch, Walter Matthau goes on the lam using a sequence of vehicles any of which would by itself represent a dream come true for the susceptible child of the 1970s