Getting Emotional with Movies, Part 1: Joy
My favorite reading material to leaf through while I’m taking care of some personal matters in the bathroom is Time Out’s 1000 Films to Change Your Life. The book is organized into ten chapters,...
Tagged: Bandidas
The Hedgehog and the Fox or: How Not To Be Distracted By Faye Dunaway On Your Quest For Flickchart Enlightenment
A few weeks ago, I erased all of my rankings (over 2,000) after receiving a shocking revelation: Many of the movies that I’d ranked exist in my mind as fragmented, abstract memories that are only tenuously representative of my overall opinion of the actual films. This...
Reel Rumbles #21 – “Bandidas” vs. “Turistas”
In This Corner… Machete, the Robert Rodriguez action massacre, was released into theatres recently. While it delivers plenty of sleaze and carnage, the movie also takes time to comment on the plight of illegal Mexican immigrants...
Comments: Stepping Up Your Game
If I possessed the brainpower (and several lifetimes), I would compose a treatise expounding on the philosophical and psychological motivations behind the rationale for every one of my matchup decisions. My dizzying insight and erudition regarding film...
