Practicalmadness

I have two words for anyone thinking of seeing A Sound Of Thunder (link to NY Times review), the new action B-picture derived from a short story by Ray Bradbury, words that have reverberated in my head ever since I...

I’ve been spending too many hours (most of them while sleeping) tuned to Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, the Fritz Lang film where the rise of Nazism was used as an excuse to resurrect not one but two of Lang’s...

In which a film is reviewed, and Dramamine is taken.

In which we celebrate an upcoming Criterion disc.

In which we consider Schindler's List, and drink ale.

In which we discuss The Movie.

In which we frickin' lose the frickin' Oscars Game and-- holy christ, elven, I mean eleven???

In which, well, you know.

In which we relay an announcement.

In which I discuss the nominations.

In which I assess last year's movies, and Jonathan Rosenbaum

In which I review the new Tim Burton movie.

One of the reviewers on Amazon’s page for the new Criterion DVD of Fellini’s La Strada seems to be a bit, well, crazy: The greatest American film director of all time is Woody Allen. The guy has made more masterpieces...

So I bought the Alien Quadrilogy DVD set, which is nine discs including a few (dozen) hours of supplements, and special extended editions of every film. This includes Ridley Scott’s not-so-aptly-named “director’s cut” edition of Alien released to theaters in...

Watching the Alien Quadrilogy box set, it occurs to me to wonder: what happens to those aliens when they get blown out into space through the airlock? Do they just float out there for all eternity? What would happen if...

The management expects that we lack the requisite attention span for what we are proposing, but the idea has popped into my mind for a series of articles about Why Great Movies Matter. Formatically (yay, I coined a word!) it...

FX is playing the 1997 movie Volcano, the thrilling story of a city under siege...oh, fuck it: it's a disaster movie about a volcano popping up in the middle of Los Angeles, and the chaos that ensues. It's total B-movie...

I have reclaimed my title; I am sorry to announce that there was no prize winner in this year's Oscars Game. There were several strong contenders, but no one who could beat my score of 82 points (out of a...

In the just-posted entry on Stan Brakhage's death, there is a link to more information surrounding the filmmaker's passing. It is hosted on Fred Camper's website. I also mention an upcoming Criterion Collection DVD compilation of Brakhage's work. The essay...