Her / It / Them (about the movie Her)
Andrew
Spike Jonze’s Her has won and may continue to win some of the year’s biggest awards, which was the final push I needed to see a movie of a sort…
Crime Keeps Paying: American Hustle, Philomena, Captain Phillips
After reflecting on the horrific dimensions of The Wolf of Wall Street, I realized that an amazing number of Golden Globe front-runners boast bases in true stories involving recent crimes.…
Horror Not Listed: The WOLF of Wall Street (2013)
The Internet Movie Database, (IMDb), lists Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street as belonging to Biography, Comedy, and Crime genres, and according to the film’s Golden Globe nomination, it’s…
Garlands of the Grotesque: Catching up with Mike Lombardo
I’ll start big: Mike Lombardo and Reel Splatter Productions‘ new short film “The Stall” now ranks near John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) on my list of favorite Lovecraftian films. For…
Oldboy’s Failed Cultural Imagination
Writing a bad review of Spike Lee’s Oldboy is, at this point, rather redundant, as the film is already failing by all the usual critical and financial metrics. However, I…