Good Is The New Bad – Film Reviews And More

Season twelve of South Park continues to hit high notes with “Canada On Strike!” This is what South Park does best — lining up the confluence of power and self-righteousness and gleefully hanging it with its own rope. Trey Parker and Matt Stone despise the arrogance of authority and privilege. One of the most common [...]

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It’s the Potter Puppet Pals, in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise.”   Since this is one of the most-viewed videos on YouTube, the odds are that one out of every five of you has seen this. That’s an amazing statistic for something that doesn’t involve kittens in funny hats, scatological humor, pornography, or someone getting hit [...]

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One picture is current Oscar nominee for Best Actor, Daniel Day-Lewis. The other is television superstar Tom Selleck playing his second signature role, Quigley Down Under.      Can you tell who is who?

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At first glance, There Will Be Blood feels pre-fabricated for the “masterpiece” label. It’s anchored by a showy, overly-intense performance. It has elegant cinematography, and the courage to unfold at a languid, dream-like pace. Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson won’t hurry along the story, letting his lead performers inhabit their characters at a turn of the [...]

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Commissions can be an interesting process. Some people have more input in what conceptually goes into a painting, making it more collaborative, while others allow me more freedom to come up with something on my own. Back in October I was asked to do a painting based on Fight Club. The finished piece is above, [...]

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David Denby, one of two film reviewers for the New Yorker takes a look at the teen step-dancing film “How She Move” this week. Denby is usually a fusty old stick-in-the-mud, but like a blind squirrel, he occasionally stumbles into an excellent piece of analysis. He begins the review with a fantastic summation of everything [...]

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I am a big fan of reading, especially folk tales and stories written with the folk style to it, and recognize the inherent pattern of “idea theft” in story-telling. Folk tales constantly revisit archetypal concepts, such as the character of “The Trickster:” Loki from Norse myth and the Coyote in the American South West. Hell, [...]

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