‘Riding in Cars with Boy(s)’ -Ep. 107: Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1 (w/ Taylor Holden)
This week’s offering: Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1. Did the film leaving me STARVING for its sequel?! Or did it play GAMES with my heart…SPOILER FREE!!!
This week’s offering: Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1. Did the film leaving me STARVING for its sequel?! Or did it play GAMES with my heart…SPOILER FREE!!!
A film review series in which I (and a potential guest) hash out our raw summations on the car ride home from the cinema. This week’s offering: The Judge. Was it a GUILTY pleasure?! Or just plain (L)AWFUL(L)…Okay, that last one was a stretch. SPOILER-FREE!!!
The Dead Sea Scrolls. Mecca & Medina. St. Peter’s Square. Yearly, the faithful flock to connect with symbols and sites that dig deep in their cultural DNA. But, where shall the god-less go? For pilgrims who’ve ever culled soul-shaping parables out of pop-songs, cineplexes or TiVo, this column’s for you. For any believers as teary-eyed…
“Let the Audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.” -director Ernst Lubitsch Last October, an ex and I pried our bodies from our soft, safe sheets and plunged into a fog so moody and moor-ish, Poe would’ve positively beamed. It was a Sunday. And, rather than doze off during services, we’d decided to enlist…
Apes. Ants. Alligators. Spiders. Snails. Even Praying Mantises, for Christ’s sake. If it’s creepy, it’s crept down Main Street USA to the shriek of tax-paying citizens. Giant Things-That-Aren’t-Typically-Giant is nothing new. It’s like Yeah, yeah. We get it: Monster crushes car, Monster batters building, Monster is impervious to bullets. We’ve been at this since Godzilla. Except, wait: Fleischer’s Arctic Giant beats Godzilla by 12 years.
A brand-new series in which Zach Oheim and I (Jordan Troublefield) watch a classic blockbuster, then its money-grabbing rip-off and assess HOW close they came to copying, HOW original they dared to be, and WHICH one is the true work of genius.