A long time ago, back when the original Star Wars was released, in 1977, its introductory crawl of yellow text played on a mere 32 screens across America, and featured neither subtitle nor promise of additional episodes. Any […]
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BPoFD Podcast Episode #19: Talking Tarantino with Seaners
In Episode #19 of the BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with visual artist and film critic Sean “Seaners” Lopez to discuss Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. Highlights include a retrospective of Tarantino’s work, excellent impressions of QT, […]
Worst to First: Quentin Tarantino Movies
The eight feature films of Quentin Tarantino, from Reservoir Dogs through The Hateful Eight, present an alternate America defined by three animating energies: crime, racism, and violence. At present, media acts as every child’s third, most beloved parent, […]
BPoFD Podcast Episode #15: Greg Zuk
In Episode #15 of the BPoFD Podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with Greg Zuk, producer of the upcoming feature film Bone Tomahawk. Highlights include discussions of directorial vision in independent cinema, the trials of a 21-day film shoot, and […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Sicario
Midway on her life’s journey, a woman finds herself in a dark wood, the right road lost. By no choice of her own, she finds herself in Juarez, a city where even heavily armed women can […]
Worst to First: M. Night Shyamalan Movies
In Split, the latest psychological thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, James McAvoy plays Kevin, “a sufferer of dissociative personality disorder” who kidnaps teenage girls and subjects them to a variety of torments, the specifics of which […]
I Rewrote and Edited That Entire Miles Teller Profile, Because Esquire Very Obviously Didn’t
Earlier this week, Esquire published a profile of the actor Miles Teller, the star of this summer’s Fantastic Four and last year’s Oscar-nominated Whiplash. Running over 2000 words, the piece reads, at best, like a botched hatchet job executed […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The End of the Tour
1. WHAT MOVIE THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, written by Donald Margulies, based on Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky, featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. Financed by […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Trainwreck
If it takes a kind of genius to strike gold, then consider Judd Apatow a genius. In the fifteen years since the cancellation of Freaks and Geeks, that altar before which all unduly cancelled TV shows […]
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