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 […]
Tag: Movies
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, […]
2015 Top Ten Lists with Zero Explanations
Top Ten Movies of 2015 1. Creed 2. Brooklyn 3. Mad Max: Fury Road 4. Sicario 5. Room 6. Wild Tales 7. The Gift 8. Inside Out 9. It Follows 10. Ex Machina x Top Ten TV […]
The BPoFD 15
These are the fifteen best movies, albums, television shows and books of the century so far, according to the Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators Editorial Board. They are presented below without comment to acknowledge the utter inanity […]
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 […]
