I was watching Netflix with my wife, she turned to a film that seemed like an interesting contemporary Urban Film Noir type about revenge and grief. It co-starred Jennifer Lopez. Here is my take. I’m not trying to be snarky here, Jennifer Lopez typically hasn’t been known for her acting skills, although by now she […]
Movies
..sometimes nothing, can be a real cool hand
“sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand…” “what we have here, is a failure to communicate..” I was sitting in Sitwell’s Coffeehouse the other day, Lisa Storie, the owner, installed a TV set a little while ago and permanently tuned it to American Movie Classics. I was initially a bit resistant to its presence, […]
3 Reasons Not to Watch ‘Pearls Before Swine (1999)’
I finally forced myself to watch Richard Wolstencroft’s ‘Pearls Before Swine’ (1999) – I found it to be an incoherent mess. In a way, it is sort of like a ‘Superfly’ for people with vaguely neo-fascist and white nationalist tendencies. It is the story of an anti-hero as he goes about his days and nights […]
Shot across the bow; Sexing or Skinning Mary-Kate Olsen And Olivier Sarkozy
Mary-Kate Olsen And Olivier Sarkozy, are often in the news these days. In an age of total decline of the industrialized Western nations, the rise of power blocks in the Global South and Far East, increased Public Sector Austerity, near bankruptcy of several governments, genocide in some global flashpoints, wars, rumors of war, the disintergration […]