Vince Keenan

Music: “Help Yourself,” by Tom Jones I’ve always liked this song. It’s got a great cha-cha backbeat and silly lyrics that TJ has fun wit...

Remake Rematch: The Stepford Wives (1975 vs. 2004) In Ira Levin’s ROSEMARY’S BABY, a husband offers up his wife as the devil’s consort. ...

Movie: Kinsey (2004) Bill Condon, you’re one sly devil. Your textbook Oscar-bait biopic is cut straight from A BEAUTIFUL MIND’s cloth. A...

DVD: Dogville (2004) Prologue: In which the author expresses some general thoughts on director/egomaniac Lars von Trier I put off se...

Movie: House of Flying Daggers (2004) Zhang Yimou’s second movie to be released this year, after the surprising success of HERO. Three c...

DVD: The Greatest ‘70s Cop Shows Kim Morgan reviewed this disc of pilot episodes at her blog Sunset Gun. I knew I had to see it for mys...

TV: Monday Night Football I’ve been asked why I haven’t weighed in on this week’s fiasco involving Terrell Owens and his DESPERATE HOUSE...

DVD: The Clearing (2004) The directorial debut of veteran producer Pieter Jan Brugge sank like a stone earlier this summer. It’s the ki...

Movie: The Incredibles (2004) It’s basically Alan Moore’s WATCHMEN retooled as a family comedy. And damned if it doesn’t work like a cha...

Miscellaneous: Quote of the Day From THE SIMPSONS: “That’s so ‘90s! Let’s all move to Seattle and use slow modems!” Yeah, what’s you...

DVD: Black Angel (1946) Following the Hollywood dictum “Anything you can do, I can do ... also,” Universal released a film noir collecti...

Miscellaneous: Links Two lists from They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? to get you through the weekend, courtesy of GreenCine Daily . T...

Miscellaneous: Bad Night Out We recently landed free tickets to one of those dinner-and-a-show extravaganzas. A five-course meal punctua...

DVD: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1969) It sounds better in Italian. L’UCCELLO DALLE PIUME DI CRISTALLO. I’ll take that over the A...

Movie: Sideways (2004) Alexander Payne scores again with one of the year’s best films. He somehow got me to empathize with a would-be wr...

Book: A Third Face, by Samuel Fuller (2002) This memoir by the filmmaker would be considerably shorter if all references to the testicle...

Movie: Ray (2004) Going into a biopic, you generally know what to expect: a towering lead performance that threatens to overwhelm the mo...

Cable Catch-Up: Dracula, Pages From A Virgin’s Diary (2002) Guy Maddin pays no attention to calendars. His movies address modern themes ...

TV: The Wire Yesterday was a strange day. Everyone seemed to be drawn inward, weighing the results of the election, contemplating the fu...

DVD: Dawn of the Dead (2004) So many of the blogs I read regularly have either gone silent or focus exclusively on the election results....