My journey through the much buzzed-about 2016 drama Vinyl begins with a look at its heavy-handed and underwhelming Martin Scorsese-directed pilot.
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Roger Corman’s passing provided a good illustration of how and how not to remember an influential, widely beloved figure.
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Robert De Niro’s riveting turn in Killers of the Flower Moon is a potent reminder of both what he’s capable of and just how far he has fallen.
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Great meme, terrible movie.
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It’s hard out there for filmmakers of a certain age.
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This latest round-up of pieces on movies about movies from my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror contains two separate James Franco movies you’ve never heard of and I still have two more left to cover. Please stop making shitty movies about movies, James Franco! Oh wait, I forgot. You’re not making any movies inside Director Jail.
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My patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another major milestone with 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which smartly casts the late pop icon as a cooly pragmatic Pontius Pilate opposite Willem Dafoe’s punishingly intense Jesus.
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Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader and Nicolas Cage got together for 1999’s Bringing Out the Dead, a pitch-black paramedic comedy of sin and salvation that, in an unsurprising turn of events is very intense and pretty fucking terrific.
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Yes, yes they can.
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A new feature on movies united by being crammed onto the same value-priced DVD begins with a pair of Dennis Hopper obscurities from the mid-1990s, one a lot of fun, the other less so.
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