Winter Break Movie Meltdown Part One

I am blessed to have working from home as a component of my job. Not only because it has made caring for my son over his Winter break and d...

The Passion And The Hyperbole: 2011 In Review

With the year winding down, it's time to delve into the obligatory wrap-up of bests and worsts reminiscences. Sure, there are quite a f...

Blue Velvet

The great thing about the Bluray medium, apart from the often stunning picture resolution and sound, is how catalog releases are beginning ...

Shloggs Speaks: Waingro Edition

I'm back on Profondo Cinema this week talking some latter career DeNiro. Heat and Ronin, Bobby D's last two good films are discusse...

Shloggs Speaks: Matrix Trilogy Edition

Hello there loyal readers! I had the honor of recording a very special Profondo Cinema with Axl in which we discuss the Matrix trilogy at ...

It Stinks! Alien, Aliens and Alien 3

This one is going to get me into trouble. Not necessarily with the bulk of film fandom (who, judging by my blogspot stats, are decidedly no...

The Thing (2011) About The Internet

I love John Carpenter's The Thing. Let's get that out of the way right off the bat. I've loved it since the first time I saw it...

You Know What's Great? Manhunter

I saw Manhunter for the first time in 1987, a banner year for me film wise. I was treated to a 10th birthday screening of Robocop and caugh...

Shloggs Speaks: Back from the Dead Edition!

I joined the Profondo Cinema boys yet again for a lengthy discussion concerning the films and intermittent career of D.I.Y icon Jim VanBebb...

Reappraisal Corner: Ang Lee's Hulk

A strange thing happened to me this last July while watching Captain America in the theater. Now, for the record, as much as I love dour, a...

It Stinks! Dario Argento

I usually try to write only about that which I love in this blog because I feel the Internet is filled with enough negativity as it is. Aft...

Valhalla Rising

Valhalla Rising is like Michael Keaton's life in Tim Burton's Batman. It's.....complex. I saw it several months before Drive c...

Changeling

It was sometime after seeing Mystic River and Letters from Iwo Jima in the theater that I wrote off seeing any more Clint Eastwood films. T...

Drive

Seeing Drive brought me back to the overwhelming, breathless awe I felt while first witnessing films like Goodfella's, Natural Born Kill...

Attack The Block

Attack the Block is a perfect example of what happens when everything comes together just right on a film. There's a reason this is one ...

Don't be Afraid of the Dark

I've long been a Guillermo DelToro booster. I saw Mimic in theaters and enjoyed it greatly. I followed his career catching up on Cronos ...

You Know What's Great? The Mangler!

Tobe Hooper's The Mangler, released in in the dead center of the most despised decade for horror among genre fans, seems to have become ...

Thanks loyal Readers!

Just wanted to print a quick thank you to all my loyal readers and to all who took the time to send me a nice comment following my return fr...

Back from the Dead!

As some of you might have heard, roughly three weeks ago, I suffered what the doctors referred to as sudden cardiac death. My heart stopped ...

Rediscovering artistic extremity in music through the pursuit of physical perfection

Film has become something I'm less and less interested in lately. I've enjoyed going to the theater on a fairly regular basis and ta...