Paying the piper, karma, “what goes around comes around”: whichever you’d like to call it, John Erick Dowdle’s (As Above, So Below, Devil) No Escape tries to tap into our rich guilt–the shame that we’re profiting at the expense of…
Movie Review: ‘She’s Funny That Way’
“They don’t make ‘em like they used to” is a phrase all too apt for one of Hollywood royalty’s latest. Peter Bogdanovich is a filmmaker from the New Hollywood movement which now, ironically, feels dated in a golden classic kind…
Movie Review: ‘Inherent Vice’ is Lost in the Haze
It’s easy to see why Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel Inherent Vice attracted the great auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, even if it is generally accepted that the novels of Pynchon are “unadaptable” as far as the cinematic language is concerned. If we take…
Watch Paul Thomas Anderson’s Gonzo Vision in ‘Inherent Vice’ Trailer
Movie fans must not fret any longer: the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s hotly anticipated Thomas Pynchon adaptation, Inherent Vice, landed yesterday, and it promises an entirely unique vision from the methodical American auteur. The first ever film adaptation…
Jon’s Movie Review: The Internship
If you were to run a search on Google for “Things That Were Funny 8 Years Ago”, you’d get the following results: George W. Bush meme’s, Star Wars Episode III jokes, and a few porn sites. What is missing would…