The Shrunken Cinema
What it's all about.

"There is a good and bad side to Short Attention Span Home Theatre, and both sides are exactly the same. (Sort of Zen, isn't it?)"

Heavy Bondage
More 007 than you may have ever wanted.

"His job is to poke people, irritate them, cause trouble and massive explosions. His job is to make a mess and see what happens."

The Turn
And hopefully not the screw.

"Oh, I'm sure it's fun for a filmmaker to pull the rug out from under the audience and watch them squirm, but it's not so much fun for the audience. That's why the good Turns, though they may change the plot, don't usually change what an audience has come to expect about a character."

Dark Victory
A tale of two cities, one of them Dark.

"Our collective impression, when we'd finished watching the film, is that we had been cheated by bad promotion and/or bad buzz: We both wished we had seen it in a theatre in 1998."

Kiss Kiss Squirm Squirm
What's become of the screwball comedy?

"I made it through this film because it pulled off the trick: It made me want a happy ending for the protagonists, it made me care what happened to them and their romance. But an ounce more of the humiliation and pain, and I would have had to stop caring about them just to save myself."

Canon Fodder (Part One)
All definitive lists are spurious.

"Note that 'most significant' does not mean 'best' or 'most popular' or even 'most influential.' Some of the films may be all three of these, but not all of them are - indeed, some films in The Canon aren't objectively very good."

My Heroes Have Not Always Been Cowboys
But sometimes I wish they still were.

"For any audience that is not masochistic, there is simply no incentive to plunk down good money to see a film consisting entirely of wholly detestable people."

Film Critics (Guilty Pleasures)
Early thoughts on a skewed view.

"How do you win that particular lottery? And what kind of hubris does it take to assume that other people are interested in hearing what you think about a particular movie?"