The film opens with the camera following a pair of feet, slowly but deliberately moving down a flight of stairs. We follow the feet to a record player, the camera slowly showing us more of this character as a Cat Stevens record in put on the turntable. We’re up to the waist, which is enough [...]
Back to the Drawing Board
Way back in February I wrote a post called “Filling in the Blind Spots” you can read it in its entirety here, but the following excerpt pretty much tells the story: I mentioned in my first post that I had two over-arching goals: Improve my overall writing with regards to film criticism Expand the breadth [...]
Serious Pulp
Have you checked out the trailer for SHUTTER ISLAND, Martin Scorsese’s newest? Click the image below: Holy $#@! One of my most vivid recent memories is reading Dennis LeHane’s Shutter Island over the course of a weekend while in the grips of one the worst damn bugs I’ve ever had. Three days of 103.5 fever, [...]
