David Fincher isn’t often described as a playful director. On the surface, his ten feature films appear to be linked more by technical aesthetics than by theme, with the clinically meticulous arrangement of his shots […]
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The BPoFD Fall Movie Preview with Taylor “T” Sardoni
In a world where a box of delicious Nestle Buncha Crunch can cost upwards of $15, scrupulosity is key for moviegoers. With costs ever rising, cinephiles have to exercise caution in their cinephiling; seeing every movie the […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Lucy
The first time we see Scarlett Johansson in Lucy she’s sucking dumbly on a fountain soda straw, barely listening as her sketchball boyfriend tries to con her into delivering a mysterious package. The last time we see […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Guardians of the Galaxy
“Less is more” is an axiom, “more is more” is not. “Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing” is an axiom, “too much of a bad thing can be a good […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Purge: Anarchy
The high concept at the center of The Purge: Anarchy and its predecessor should make for better drivel than this, but it very definitely doesn’t, and again these are movies whose lofty ideas nosedive in execution to […]
2014.5 Top Five Lists With Zero Explanations
Top 5 Movies of 2014 So Far 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2. The Lego Movie 3. Obvious Child 4. Edge of Tomorrow 5. Under the Skin Top 5 TV Shows of 2014 So Far […]
A Preemptive Review of the Seth MacFarlane Cowboy Movie
Editor’s Note: I have not seen the Seth MacFarlane cowboy movie, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and I don’t intend to, ever. With that said, I must acknowledge the unfortunate fact that […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Editor’s Note: In preparation for this review, I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel twice. I did this neither out of adoration nor frustration, but out of functional necessity. See, I fell asleep around midway through […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Cloud Atlas
In the fraught relationship between film and literature, few events are rarer than a film adaptation that qualitatively surpasses its source material. Now, note the use of “literature” in the preceding sentence, as the bond […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 