The Bit Maelstrom

I've decided to split up the blog into (at least) two parts. The movie stuff is going to moviegique.com . Stuff will also be appearing...

What's a guy to do? You stick a big, fat anti-West message in your suspense/thriller, and still  you're accused of being racist, xen...

America's full of rags-to-riches stories, or in this case, not-quite-rags-to-amazing-riches stories, and I seldom get tired of them. But...

Restricting my fiction reading , as I largely do, to things written prior to 1950, there is nothing I can say about The End of the Tour ...

This is one of those movies where the trailers made me nervous. The story is about a poet who is locked up for committing the crime of poetr...

A lot of people don't know this, but the Jewish scriptures, the Torah and the Talmud, talk a lot about sex. You don't have to think ...

When he was alive, Marlon Brando used to tape record himself talking. (No word on whether he continued this in death.) Writer/director Steve...

Ask me if I want to go see a three hour movie. (Go on, Peter Jackson, ask me.) The answer is likely to be "maaaaaaaaaybe". Now, te...

We were not exactly clamoring to go see Christian Petzold's latest flick, Phoenix , not having been huge fans of Barbara , but it was an...

In 1968, a desperate ABC network, unable to compete with the gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democrat and Republican national conventions—and...

One place where Rotten Tomatoes really has to be taken with a grain of salt is horror movies. Insidious: Chapter 3  originally had thumbs-do...

Judd Apatow movies have the distinct and perhaps dubious honor of being among the raunchiest mainstream movies while also being the most sub...

In truth, the trailers for The Outrageous Sophie Tucker  were particularly uninspiring. It looks cheap. It sounds cheap. And, of course, it...

Should you ever wonder how "in touch" with America film critics are, you could look at the reviews for Tangerine —about a transexu...

It's interesting to note that DC's Atom first appeared in October 1961, and Marvel's Ant-Man January of 1962, which shows, I thi...