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Bronx Tale

He’s wrong, it don’t take much strength to pull a trigger but try getting up every morning day after day and work for a living, let’s see him try that, then we’ll see who the...

Quentin Tarantino’s final film ‘The Movie Critic’ rumoured to be about critic Pauline Kael.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. – Pauline Kael Is it a great movie? I don’t think so. But...

One of the best scenes from La La Land and Sidney Bechet.

Among the great pantheon of New Orleans Jazz artists, Sidney Bechet is rightfully near the top of that group of legends. The saxophonist was born May 14, 1897, and according to some, brought forth the...

Tarantino Post Modernism

Many consider these similarities homages, a practice as long as the history of cinema itself, a way for Tarantino to pay respect to the movies he loves. But Tarantino denies this. In the same...

One of the best scenes from Life of Brian by Terry Jones

Life of Brian by Terry Jones (1979) In this scene movie pokes fun at revolutionary groups and 70s British left-wing politics. The groups in this movie all oppose the Roman occupation of Judea, but...

Bronx Tale

He’s wrong, it don’t take much strength to pull a trigger but try getting up every morning day after day and work for a living, let’s see him try that, then we’ll see who the real tough guy is, the working man is the tough guy, your father’s the tough guy! The story, written by...

Quentin Tarantino’s final film ‘The Movie Critic’ rumoured to be about critic Pauline Kael.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. – Pauline Kael Is it a great movie? I don’t think so. But it’s a triumphant piece of filmmaking-journalism presented with the brio of drama. – New Yorker No other film has ever dramatized...

One of the best scenes from La La Land and Sidney Bechet.

Among the great pantheon of New Orleans Jazz artists, Sidney Bechet is rightfully near the top of that group of legends. The saxophonist was born May 14, 1897, and according to some, brought forth the concept of the soloist in his genre. Bechet was largely a self-taught child prodigy who picked up the clarinet at...

Tarantino Post Modernism

Many consider these similarities homages, a practice as long as the history of cinema itself, a way for Tarantino to pay respect to the movies he loves. But Tarantino denies this. In the same interview, he goes on to say, “Great artists steal. They don’t do homages.” It’s a quote that closely resembles words attributed...

One of the best scenes from Life of Brian by Terry Jones

Life of Brian by Terry Jones (1979) In this scene movie pokes fun at revolutionary groups and 70s British left-wing politics. The groups in this movie all oppose the Roman occupation of Judea, but fall into the familiar pattern of intense competition among factions that appears, to an outsider, to be over Distinctions so small...