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With a slate of films about to jockey for position in the upcoming awards season, I wanted to take this time to point out some memorable per...

The zombie genre has metastasized into something brutal and relentless. Gone are the days of George Romero's slow-walking, mummified dea...

In 1992, I was perusing the video store shelves when I came across a VHS copy of a film titled "Laws of Gravity". I had heard abou...

Due to the kindness of strangers and the openness of the internet, I was able to have a copy of Thom Anderson's "Los Angeles Plays ...

Fernando Meirelles's "Blindness" is a completely divisive affair. Raked over the coals at Cannes and forced to drop a supposed...

Week 4 of the Trahscan Odorous Jr. radio show is in the books and can be found here . If you're a Dallas Cowboys fan, then I urge you no...

Choke Character actor Clark Gregg ("The Adventures of Sebastian Cole")chose as his debut film as a director the arduous task of ad...

So... with my internet problems finally solved, I feel like a junkie who's been clean for three months and just now took another hit. It...

Over the past few days, I've seen two films that deal explicitly with the divisions between black and white in varying place, time and c...

Robert Altman's "Nashville" is generally regarded as the quintessential and sprawling masterpiece of the 70's that best e...

It's been over two months since I last visited this series of posts, but I suppose I've had plenty of other things to write about......

First, to get the self promotion out of the way, you can click here to listen to an hour long Blog Talk Radio program that I've been p...

I'm a TV junkie. The ironic thing is though... I watch very little TV broadcasts upon first premier. While the sitcom schedule is in ful...

At a trip to the local Blockbuster a while back, I picked up "Once", that little musical indie-that-could from last year. And a no...

Even a day later, I'm still smiling about certain scenes in the Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading". There's the (almo...

I probably shouldn't make light of the hurricane, but when you've watched as much coverage as I have today, a clip like this kinda ...

Tell No One "Tell No One", directed by Guillaume Canet and based on a novel by American writer Harlan Coben, has lingered in the a...

Also known as "A Cop" or "Dirty Money", "Un Flic" was Jean Pierre Melville's thirteenth and final film re...

I've been tagged by Adam at DVD Panache with another incarnation of the 12 movie meme . What originally started as this at Piper's...

Director Brad Anderson is a chameleon. Working effortlessly in several genres and continually producing solid efforts, I've been an admi...