Night of the Coens
“A dull but perhaps original thought,” came to dccairns that, “boy, the Coens have been pilfering Night of the Hunter for years.”
4:14
4:14 of Nicolas Cage losing his shit.
Kick-Ass Trailer
Kick-Ass has some, well,… pretty good trailers. (thanks, Tera and Rebecca)
HIS SOUL’S STILL DANCING
In the course of making The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans, Werner Herzog seems to have discovered how to save Nicolas Cage: let him drown. Why am I writing about Nicolas Cage again, after effectively writing him off in a previous column? Maybe because, with his […]
SYNECHDOCHE, ARIZONA
In the final episode of St. Elsewhere, something strange happens. Snow begins to fall around St. Eligius Hospital, and we cut to an image of Dr. Donald Westphall’s autistic son Tommy, a minor character in the series up to this point. He sits, staring at a snow globe, […]
The Cultural Gutter 