And now for something completely different.  We’ve all had a chance to rattle off our top 10 films or performances or breakout stars or any number of other clever list ideas.  But what say we just revel in some beautiful [...]

In a typical year, I can count on seeing between eighty to a hundred of the movies released. In 2012, however, I barely managed fifty films! Sure, I did become a father this year which stunted my theater hopping somewhat, [...]

Robin Wood famously referred to Taxi Driver as a hallmark example of the ‘incoherent text’ in 1970s cinema, inspiring film studies debates for years to come.  How do we define a text as incoherent? What does it mean for a [...]

I really should learn not to read the NY Times movie page.  If there is a more out of touch group of critics and grouchy old women, I haven’t heard of it.  Time and again they bemoan the death of [...]

It’s that time again for TGITDNMAR, which (obviously) stands for Thank God It’s The Day New Movies Are Released. Last week I questioned whether or not I was getting out of touch with contemporary cinema.  This week, it’s sadly been [...]

Here is our first full-length trailer for The Master, the new film from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson: I have spoken before about being alone on an island in a general dislike for the works of PTA. I will admit that [...]

Sigh. I am the last person that should be posting this, as I am not a fan in really any form of Paul Thomas Anderson, but either way, I know that many are. So here’s your second teaser trailer for [...]

In his follow-up to There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film The Master now officially has a teaser trailer. The film is “A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as ‘the Master’ whose faith-based [...]