February 2nd, 2010 was a day of announcements. Being on the West Coast, I awoke to a string of news articles. After my first ten minutes of consciousness, I had already been underwhelmed by the predictability of the...
There’s no greater satisfaction than receiving exactly what is expected. When Netflix sends me an email with the subject line “For Tue: Beastmaster,” I can rest assured that my mailman has a red...
Criterion makes us think. Rather than providing us with campy comedies and mindless, explosion-laden action flicks (well, save one or two), they provide us with intellectually-gratifying cinema coupled with essays...
…Okay, not really — But now that I have your attention: Ryan was oh-so thoughtful enough to give me a Christmas gift he just knew I’d LOVE in Steven Seagal’s 2004 straight-to-DVD...
Want to know how long I've been receiving Criterion's monthly newsletter, all-the-while daydreaming of being someone of enough cinematic circumstance to be awarded the platform and asked to list my "Top Ten?"
Well, this is embarrassing. It seems that when I typed up my prediction for March 23rd releases, I accidentally typed “Rashomon 35mm print with Sidney Lumet supplement” instead of “Yojimbo and...