The End of Cinema

In 1955, McDonalds, Disneyland and 70 mm feature films were born, Albert Einstein, James Dean, Emmett Till, Cy Young and Honus Wagner died, ...

Fox & Friends discussing how much money patriotic Hollywood films make vs. gay, communist and socialist films. Annoyingly annotated and...

As an addendum to the end of the year list-making hysteria, an interesting thread popped up recently on the DVD Beaver mailing list about th...

Catching up with some recently seen movies while breaking in the new name. I've managed to fix all the links on the sidebar (as far as ...

This is very premature for me, as the size of my Unseen Movies list will indicate, but it's New Year's Eve and everyone else has wri...

Catching up with some recently seen movies while trying to relax before I have to go back to work during the busiest week of the year. Twili...

A trailer for George Lucas's latest "updating" of the Star Wars Trilogy:

In 1956, Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller, the hydrogen bomb and Elvis Presley exploded for the first time and both Tom Hanks and Mel Gi...

Elevate Me Later by Pavement Well your greed for tokens and stamps Underneath the fake oil burning lamps In the city we forgot to name The c...

Came across a well-written essay on House Of Flying Daggers today, by a critic named Ken Chen . He levels the same accusation against Zhang...

Your randomly selected poem for today is Shut Not Your Doors, by Walt Whitman. Shut Not Your Doors Shut not your doors to me proud libraries...

From William Blake, in honor of my newly delivered DVD of Dead Man. THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT BARD Youth of delight! come hither And see the ...

The new Dylan video, for Thunder On The Mountain, is out:

Some more movie thoughts as I try to catch up with the big backlog of movies I've managed to build up while holding back the tears cause...

Just about done getting over my cold, but still trying to recover from Sunday's trip to see a very big movie. here's some thoughts ...

I was going to have something more substantive this weekend, but I caught a cold instead. And now I'm off to spend the rest of the day ...

As we as a nation prepare to execute millions of large flightless birds in honor of our gods, some thoughts on a few recently seen movies. ...

Robert Altman died today at age 81. He was one of the great American directors of the last 40 years, creating dozens of idiosyncratic, pers...

Reading moviecitynews on Zhang Yimou's upcoming Curse Of The Golden Flower, I found a link to this review of Zhang's Hero by Armon...