Instead of a top 10 list, every year I like to honor a long-discontinued but influential annual column from Film Comment magazine. I couldn’t wait for my father to come home from work with the “Moments Out Of Time” issue. The writers would cite their favorite scenes, images, or lines of dialogue, even from films... Continue Reading →
Pussy Galore! Two sides of my brain try to come to terms with seeing Tom Hooper’s Cats.
FILM BRAIN (FB): What the fuck did we just watch? MUSICAL THEATRE BRAIN (MTB): Cats. FB: Yeah, but… what the actual… MTB: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, you know the one that’s been around since 1981. We saw it when we were kids. FB: I know but… that film was… MTB: Yeah, I’ll admit, the... Continue Reading →