2012: The Year In Film

2012 was a stupendous year for cinema from my perspective.  There were certainly some abysmal lows, but for the most part, the highs were hi...

Chopper and Bronson

After recently catching Killing Them Softly , I developed a strong urge to revisit Andrew Dominik's first film, the Australian criminal...

Killing Them Softly

Andrew Dominik grabbed my attention quite forcefully with Chopper over a decade ago.  I was fairly obsessed with that film for a good long w...

The Blood of cowards

In the last couple of weeks, I've revisited what I believe to be the 2 most important American films of the new millennium. The Assassin...