There are many to choose from, but the indelible moment in the both quaffable and transcendent “Sideways“—Alexander Payne’s now 20-year-old bummer masterpiece adaptation of Rex Pickett’s novel about wine, middle age, and a distinctly American flavor of masculine failure and disappointment—has to be a pair of dueling monologues. We’re in Santa Ynez Valley, country lodged … Read more
IO Interactive announced its James Bond game, Project 007, nearly four years ago. While details on the upcoming project are still scare, CEO Hakan Abrak recently shed some light on their interpretation of the popular spy franchise. Project 007 features a new James Bond game built for gamers In an interview with IGN, Abrak discussed … Read more
We are pleased to offer an excerpt from the October 2024 issue of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room. Their theme for October is Screwballs, and they’re devoting the entire month to screwball comedies, past and present. In addition to Olympia’s piece on Lombard, the issue also features new essays on “The Thin Man,” “The Palm Beach Story,” “The Awful … Read more
“Welcome to Peeping Toms, New York’s newest and grooviest game!” – Brian De Palma, “Sisters” “You know your dick was hard the entire time,” Quentin Tarantino once accused of Stanley Kubrick. It was in response to how Kubrick maintained that “A Clockwork Orange” was a powerful statement of anti-violence and took no pleasure in its … Read more
Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making science fiction fable “Megalopolis” was financed with his own wealth, the result of selling off part of his vineyards, and has the hallmarks of a labor of love in which nobody could say no to him about any aspect, even budget or running time. Which is not to say that it’s … Read more
Sometimes, when I watch a short film, particularly a documentary, I come away feeling that it could have gone on another thirty minutes or so, and I still would’ve been hooked. Lydia Cornett’s film “Fleshwork” is roughly six and a half minutes, and when it ended, I initially felt it was too short. For some … Read more
In 1994, right before Quentin Tarantino was about to blow up with his Oscar/Palme d’Or-winning sophomore feature “Pulp Fiction,” he had a profile in the September issue of Details. The profile also included a list of 15 “must-see films” from him. I’ve always been fascinated by this list. Back then, I was a budding cinephile, … Read more
In 1987’s “Fatal Attraction,” Glenn Close’s Alex Forrest, just awakened from what must have been a deep sleep, the kind that comes after intense psychic upheaval, doesn’t look into Michael Douglas’ Dan Gallagher’s eyes when she asks him if he will call her sometime. “You don’t have to if you don’t want to,” she says, … Read more
Jaleel White is a cyborg space pirate in a new image from Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the upcoming live-action series coming to Disney+. With The Acolyte having come and gone (not to mention getting cancelled), the stage is set for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the next live-action Star Wars series on Disney+. Entertainment Weekly has … Read more
We are overjoyed to present an excerpt from the new volume of critical analysis of ABC’s “Lost,” written by the great Emily St. James & Noel Murray. Get a copy here. On November 1, 2005—about six weeks after Lost’s Season Two premiere—Hyperion Books published Endangered Species, a novel about an Oceanic 815 survivor who hadn’t … Read more