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HEEERE’S RODNEY: A DISCUSSION WITH RODNEY ASCHER, DIRECTOR OF ‘ROOM 237’ AND ‘THE NIGHTMARE’
August 21, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

HEEERE’S RODNEY: A DISCUSSION WITH RODNEY ASCHER, DIRECTOR OF ‘ROOM 237’ AND ‘THE NIGHTMARE’

By Kevin Redding  At roughly 4 a.m. in the quiet dark, when most everybody else is well into their sleep, […]

PURE CINEPHILIA: A CHAT WITH CRAIG JOHNSON
July 3, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

PURE CINEPHILIA: A CHAT WITH CRAIG JOHNSON

By Kevin Redding If the movie really hypnotizes me, the sensation follows out into real life, and the world seems […]

MAD DAN: FURY BLOG, OR SOCIAL POLITICS & THE DESECRATION OF THE MODERN MOVIE EXPERIENCE
June 4, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

MAD DAN: FURY BLOG, OR SOCIAL POLITICS & THE DESECRATION OF THE MODERN MOVIE EXPERIENCE

By Dan Poorman These days you get in a lot of trouble no matter what you say, you know what […]

IT DOES: A REACTION TO ‘IT FOLLOWS’
April 1, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

IT DOES: A REACTION TO ‘IT FOLLOWS’

By Dan Poorman NOTE: This is spoiler-free. You’re welcome. I’m going to cut to the chase: everyone is talking about […]

ANIMATION NEW AND NEWER: THE 2014-2015 ROUNDUP
February 16, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

ANIMATION NEW AND NEWER: THE 2014-2015 ROUNDUP

By Cole Rothacker Last year was an interesting year for animated films. For the first time since 2006, we didn’t see […]

DOES JUPITER ASCEND?
February 11, 2015 1 Comment by danpoorman Film

DOES JUPITER ASCEND?

By Scott Interrante When I was in third or fourth grade, I started writing a novel—as third or fourth graders who are too […]

‘AMERICAN SNIPER’ AND THE PRO-WAR, ANTI-WAR FILM
January 31, 2015 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

‘AMERICAN SNIPER’ AND THE PRO-WAR, ANTI-WAR FILM

By Jon Comulada In the opening moments of Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, we see an American tank and a squadron […]

FOR YOUR TV SCREEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY
December 25, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

FOR YOUR TV SCREEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY

It’s Christmas, folks, and you know what that means: The Taste Basket writers/holiday aficionados Kevin Redding and Dan Poorman have joined forces to create another […]

FIRST WATCH 2014: MEMORABLE FILMS, OLD AND NEW
December 17, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

FIRST WATCH 2014: MEMORABLE FILMS, OLD AND NEW

It’s December, and you know what that means. It’s the last month of the year. Also, there are some holidays […]

SOCIOPATHS, DRESSES, AND THE MECHANICS OF ACTING: CRACKING OPEN THE MIND OF BRAD DOURIF
December 15, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

SOCIOPATHS, DRESSES, AND THE MECHANICS OF ACTING: CRACKING OPEN THE MIND OF BRAD DOURIF

By Kevin Redding Since the 1970s, actor Brad Dourif has made a career out of his chameleon-versatility in film, TV, […]

THE FINAL CUT: RECOMMENDED VIEWING FOR HALLOWEEN NIGHT
October 31, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

THE FINAL CUT: RECOMMENDED VIEWING FOR HALLOWEEN NIGHT

Picture this: It’s Halloween night, you’re too old to go trick-or-treating and you don’t have a party to attend. Or, […]

ON MONSTER MASHUPS
October 30, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

ON MONSTER MASHUPS

By PJ Grisar The modern monster mythos was born one rainy summer night in Switzerland when a teenage girl decided […]

‘THE SHAPE’ OF MY HEART: A LOVE LETTER TO CARPENTER’S ‘HALLOWEEN’ & THE SEASON
October 29, 2014 1 Comment by danpoorman Film

‘THE SHAPE’ OF MY HEART: A LOVE LETTER TO CARPENTER’S ‘HALLOWEEN’ & THE SEASON

By Kevin Redding I haven’t yet seen the new Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer. I haven’t listened to much music […]

ROSAMUND PIKE AND THE MOST REMARKABLE FILM PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR
October 15, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

ROSAMUND PIKE AND THE MOST REMARKABLE FILM PERFORMANCE THIS YEAR

By Jon Comulada *MORE GONE GIRL SPOILERS AHEAD!* The mark of a great performance, in my opinion, is a sense of […]

BLOOD, GUTS, AND GONZO FEMINISM: GILLIAN FLYNN AND THE ‘GONE GIRL’ HORROR NARRATIVE
October 13, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

BLOOD, GUTS, AND GONZO FEMINISM: GILLIAN FLYNN AND THE ‘GONE GIRL’ HORROR NARRATIVE

By Dan Poorman Friends, Internet dwellers: There are many spoilers sprinkled throughout this essay. I have marked some in convenient BOLD […]

‘IT’ ALL STARTED WITH A VIDEOTAPE…
October 7, 2014 Leave a Comment by danpoorman Film

‘IT’ ALL STARTED WITH A VIDEOTAPE…

By Logan Metcalf Stemming from my childhood, there have been two constant phobias that have always plagued me. Unsurprisingly, they […]

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