By complete serendipity I revisited Heathers on the same weekend I saw Bobcat Goldthwait’s latest film: World’s Greatest Dad. It was downright eerie, because while watching the latter I couldn’t help but wonder if Goldthwait had purposefully set out to make a film that followed the Heathers mold. Both are dark comedies that use high [...]

Why are so many American movie posters nowadays so lame? It’s like they’re all being made by the same marketing group populated by lazy designers. I suspect their choices are driven by tired group data skewed by polls gathered from freebie screenings at strip malls populated by bored teenagers. The result? Faces and guns are [...]

What is the fascination with the number 10? Why is it always a “Top 10″ list? There are 12 months in the year and there are four six-packs to a case of beer – which is 12 x 2 for those keeping score (and trust me, you want the case discount because the savings do [...]

I recently got into a FaceBook tussle that then rolled over into my Fantasy Football League – it was like a bunch of drunk cowboys fighting their way from one room to the next. We all know social networks can be fun time-killers, but this topic resulted in over sixty posts flying back-and-forth. Time was [...]

I just read the six-page article in the November 16th, 2009, New Yorker by Arthur Krystal titled Slow Fade: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood. Reading about the famous American author who took the literary world by storm with The Great Gatsby and other stories, only to find himself at the bottom of the food chain [...]

There are thousands of film festivals out there, and most of them are small D.I.Y. affairs that lean heavily on digital projection and extremely low-budget projects that happily take up any host that will notice them. And that’s fine. But I’ve also seen an abuse of local media by some of these overzealous festival promoters [...]

It was Robert Ryan’s last role, and also one of his best performances. Ryan had long idolized Eugene O’Neill, and The Iceman Cometh, which was written in 1939, is a work by a famous American playwright working at the peak of his powers. The 1973 performance was part of a short-lived experiment by the American [...]

Ever wonder if the universe might be sending you a secret message? I’m not one to read tea-leaves or Tarot cards, but sometimes think numerology can be fun. So today I woke up wondering if there could be any significance to it being the first day of the eleventh month of the year. Taking a [...]

“So much about this movie and its characters should be annoying, but the sensory disorientation climaxes in a freakout that wipes all troubles away, as well as anything else in your head.” (The Village Voice)
“…without a doubt one of the most intriguing and well-crafted low-budget horror films in recent memory.” (Fangoria)
“It’s akin to an acid [...]