The word ‘seminal’ is a fairly over-used adjective these days but it’s absolutely applicable to Neil Gaiman’s wondrous novel, ‘American Gods’. Telling the story of the Old Gods and the New Gods as they battle for the worship of the American masses, the novel is a story of immigration, religion and folklore as much as [...]
No it's not about Trump's inauguration day. Sea of Love is a pretty standard whodunnit with Al Pacino, which he made after his four-year break from filmmaking that followed the big flop that was Revolution. He’s a homicide detective whose wife has left him for one of his fellow officers, he has an alcohol problem, [...]
The Lost City of Z is the latest film by James Gray, one of the best directors working today, despite his whining about not earning enough to be able to afford a house in a recent interview with Vulture. The movie tells the extraordinary true story of British adventurer Percival Fawcett who, unlike all of [...]
In 2015 the industrial group Laibach became the first Western band to ever play a concert in North Korea—a ludicrous state of affairs, and the strangest choice of band there could have been, given Laibach’s history of political provocation. The event is documented in the film Liberation Day (named for the fact that they played [...]
Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is the movie that made me into a film obsessive after my father dragged me to see it in a rep cinema in my hometown of Portland, Oregon. It’s a film that expanded the imagination and possibilities of cinema, and Karel Zeman’s version of Munchausen from 1961 does exactly the [...]
