Coming from some disingenious online blograg discussion, I started hammering away at my thoughts on Alex Garland. I think he’s delivering some of the most important filmwork of the last decade+, and (more…)
The greatest DVD Audio Commentary Tracks of all time! Spinal Tap, Tropic Thunder, Sideways, Ebert, Goodfellas, and many more!
I just found out Goodfellas has a commentary track with Henry Hill and the FBI agent who busted him doing the commentary. And I’ve been rabbit holing my collection for commentary, and my research spiraled (more…)
Westerns and Neo-Westerns of the last 25 years
NEO WESTERNS TV: The Wire, Westworld, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, Fargo A History of Violence (2005) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Bacurau (2019) Black Mountain (more…)
Golden Era, Renaissance, Slack Key, and Traditional Hawaiian Music Thread!
GIANT Streaming music thread (big post) to curate for posterity! What records / lps do you have in your collection that you either inherited from your folks, or are non kitsch traditional Hawaiian or Polynesian? (more…)
Afro-genre rabbit hole…
“The greatest thing to know is that you don’t know” … so I know *some*, but this is a HUGE genre with subgenres, and there is just a lot of bad stuff out there, too… so it takes time to sort through (more…)
A lost Roger Ebert article from American Film Magazine, March 1981: ” Why movie audiences aren’t safe anymore” about first person perspective horror slasher genre films.
“I’d like to know more on the subject” – my jaw dropped take that America just does not change. [shakes head] Fishybits thoughts first: In interest of academic rigor of film history, neither professions (more…)
Newsletter #0072 – Language is a wave breaking open the world.
The title is simply Salman Rushdie in context of his 27 second knife attack, speaking about healing both literal, and metaphoric, open wounds. You know… They never finish Lord Acton’s quote ‘Power (more…)
Newsletter #0071 – Love is a state of being
Michael Shannon out there healing the human race. The social media post you may have even seen sort of suggests it is predicting the future, but he was speaking about his present (more…)
NEWSLETTER #0070 – The audience loves a slow thinker.
“THE AUDIENCE LOVES A SLOW THINKER” – Buster Keaton I cannot get this Buster Keaton quote out of my head. It nails so much of comedy, whether Bugs Bunny or Three Stooges or someone late on the (more…)
Newsletter #0069 – Only the dead have seen the end of war.
For people suffering the consequences of their own actions: @doctorfubbs Put respect on yourself.#drfubbs #omg ? Blame Game – Doctor Fubbs The subject / headline quote is Plato. I’m not (more…)