In 1978’s American war drama The Deer Hunter, three friends portrayed by Bobby DeNiro (we’re tight), Christopher Walken, and John Savage enter the Vietnam War as cheerful, vivacious jokesters only to return damaged and half-full. (So basically, it’s like almost every single war movie ever made.) But what Michael Cimino’s film really offers here is some dynamite…
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother (Jane Fonda) and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the…
If a friend or reader was going to try to follow my footsteps in the trek to watch every single Best Picture winner in the history of forever, I would probably advise that they sell their TV, slap themselves in the face, and run away from home. Regardless, this blogger is trudging forward and probably…
Ever since her breakthrough as Kate Gregson on the underappreciated Showtime series United States of Tara, we knew there was something special about Brie Larson. She handled the naivety and whimsy of a teenage girl like a boss, maintaining likability despite the character’s flightiness and poor decision-making, while also conveying emotion in her wide, commanding…
If I could go back in time and live in any other decade of my choosing, without question I’d live out my late teens and 20’s in the Seventies. Specifically, New York City in 1973: the era that saw the opening of one of the most important rock clubs the music industry has ever and…
I want to give Kathleen Hanna the biggest high-five right now. One of those massive, deafening, hand-stinging high-fives. In 2010, Hanna was filmed for most of the year by filmmaker Sini Anderson. The result was last year’s Rock Doc The Punk Singer, a film chronicling Hanna, the Bikini Kill/Le Tigre frontwoman who played a massive…
A long time ago, we used to be friends with the sassiest teen sleuth since Nancy Drew, and her name was Veronica Mars. The latest cult-favorite returning from the dead (think: Firefly/Serenity), the original series ran on UPN/The CW from 2004-2007. After three seasons, a heap of murders, a horrifying bus crash and some major…
Charles Schulz’s super-famous comic strip about a boy, his dog, and his grief is getting a re-do. Peanuts is loosely slated to hit theaters in November of 2015 and today, the Internet got its first glimpse at Snoopy Redux. Is the Internet praising the return of a nostalgic former love or are we Angry Mobbing…
The latest stop on my quest to watch every single Best Picture winner involved some Kevin Costner butt. A LOT of Kevin Costner butt, actually. In Dances with Wolves (directed by The Bodyguard, himself), Costner plays Union Army lieutenant John J. Dunbar who travels to the American frontier to find a military post after narrowly…
With SXSW right around the corner, a sneak peek of Outkast’s Andre 3000 playing Jimi Hendrix has finally surfaced. Written and directed by John Ridley, (who won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for 12 Years a Slave), buzz surrounding All is by My Side has been floating about the Web since 2012. After struggling to…