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First & Last: 'Not one word'
first and last puzzlesthe first image and the last line of dialogue from a motion picture ...not one gesture of yours shall I ever forget. Nor can I. Can you guess the movie?
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Likability
Hello, lovelies. Beau here, hoping you all have had a fantastic weekend. Whether that involved arguing over the season finale of Girls, shielding your eyes from Halle Berry’s hair in The Call, or just...
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Visual Index ~ Psycho's (Best) Shots
With Bates Motel premiering tonight on A&E starring Vera Farmiga as the infamous Norma Bates, let's look back at your choices (and mine) for Psycho's Best Shots. Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece made...
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First & Last. Season Six Continues
the first and last image from a motion picture Can you guess the movie?
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Curio: David Collier's Squiggles
Alexa here. David Collier is a Canadian artist who makes, amongst other things, interesting portraits in ink and watercolor. His lines and squiggles form fractured likenesses of the famous that are...
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Top Ten 1950s
This will be the last top ten off the top of my head whole decade thingies for a bit -- we need to get to real articles but I've been swamped off blog. But these discussions are fun, don't you agree?...
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Revolving Links
Gawker "Magneto to Marry Professor X" the headline is actually true! Sir Ian McKellen is the best. Slate an excellent piece on American cinema's love affair with serial killers and violence with...
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First & Last: 'It's been a long time...'
first and last puzzlesthe first and last image from a motion picture Can you guess the movie? Bonus points if you can tell me what we're looking at in the first image.
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Beauty Break: Horizontal Lovelies
From top to bottom chronologically: Natalie Wood, Jane Fonda as Barbarella, Burt Reynolds as The Cosmopolitan Man, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia Organa, Miss Piggy, La Pfeiffer as Catwoman,...
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Best Shot: "Forbidden Games"
On the occasion of writer/director René Clément’s centennial I thought we’d take a look back at his award winning 1952 film Forbidden Games. This drama about children and grief during World War II won...
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First & Last: Love
first and last puzzlesthe first image and the last line from a motion picture I'll show you the internationally infamous free love crawl. It's a little stroke I picked up out in space." Can you guess...
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Visual Index ~ Forgotten Masterpiece / Forbidden Games
I realized after reading the collected articles on René Clément's Forbidden Games that Hit Me With Your Best Shot sometimes works best when you (i.e. the reader) have already seen the film in question....
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Smash: "Musical Chairs"
"Smash", the confused conflicted self-sabotaging TV Show rife with behind-the-scenes drama is about "Bombshell", a confused conflicted self-sabotaging Stage Musical rife with behind-the-scenes drama....
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Mini-Posterized: Tina Fey
With Admission opening tomorrow and a Posterized for the ridiculously prolific Paul Rudd on its way, I thought we'd look quickly at Tina Fey's film career. It has to be quick since it's so short....
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The Hermione Granger Franchise
Today's Must ReadIf you're interested in the Harry Potter series or gender you must read this editorial "In Praise of Joanne Rowling's Hermione Granger Series". As most of y'all know I'm not really a...
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Two TV Takes: "Southland" & "Bates Motel"
As I wait anxiously for the next great TV series to arrive -- where are you? -- I thought we should talk a little about two very different shows and the axis of Concept and Execution. Mad Men gets "A"s...
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"Road to Perdition" (Plus: Posthumous Oscars)
75th Annual Oscars ~ 10th Anniversary SpecialOn this very day 10 years ago, one of only two posthumous Oscars for the past decade in film was handed out. It went to Conrad Hall for his lensing of Road...
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10th Anniversary: That Jazzy "Chicago" Win
[Editor's Note: You know "Denny" well from the comments section. Since he's a choreographer by trade, I asked him to sound off on Dance in film. Particularly on Chicago since its win was so strangely...
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Posterized: Paul Rudd
gif via MNPPWere I to type "Paul Rudd is back in movie theaters!" one might reasonably respond, "Was he ever out of movie theaters?" The prolific star never stops working for better or worse. This has...
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Link Be a Lady Tonight
Film.com Excellent piece on the online coverage of Lynne Ramsay's no-show on Jane Got a Gun. There's just so much default anti-woman rhetoric online. Crazy that this rarely ever improves.Slant Magazine...
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