Being on the leading edge of media criticism I just got around to watching the Sopranos finale last night. It was about 24 hours after I had the “ending” ruined for me, if such an ending could even be ruined.
I was eager to find out about this controversial ending I’d been hearing so much about. I suspected creator David Chase and company would be vindicated. When it comes to Sopranos I’m a loyalist, over the past four years I’ve developed a relationship to these characters and their mythologies that boarders on familial. Continue reading ‘A’
There’s a café I’m known to frequent, and on the bathroom wall is scrawled the following line, credited to Tom Robins.
“Just more suckers betting their share of the present on the future, banking every misery on a happy ending” Continue reading ‘The’
Guess what Horshack, all your dreams are coming true because now you can add Orson Welles on myspace. That’s right Orson “War of the Worlds, Charles Foster Kane, Keep your damn crayons off my movie, Unicron” Welles can live in your precious precious top 8. Get on it bitches!
Conventional wisdom be damned, Spider-Man 3 is not the worst of Spider-Man series so far. That distinction belongs to the awkward and uninspired original Spider-Man flick. What Spider-Man 3 is, is a bunch of good, even inspired moments and set pieces cobbled together in such a way that they almost make sense; giving us the illusion that we’re watching one film rather than three unrelated movies all projected on the same screen at the same time. The many competing plot lines of this third Spider-Man picture have barely anything to do with one another, other than that they incidentally involve some of the same characters. Continue reading ‘Another’
It seems like an obvious idea but still I’ve been resisting the urge to do a video of the week style posting up until I saw this luminescent flotsam of genius posted on youtube. The song is Arcade Fire, the film is Sergio Leone and the idea to sew them together was this guy’s
