Bite-sized Big Shot Movie Club, no reading required! It’s a podcast! Episode 11: Warpaint drummer and general bon vivant Stella Mozgawa comes over to play the loser game and Sarah and Julia assess the collateral damage of the post-9/11 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle of the same name.
Big Shot: The Devil, Probably
A Robert Bresson film in color, The Devil, Probably is more contemporary than anything from him that we know how to understand. Right off the bat, this is jarring: a film by an old man (who has always been old) about young people, made at a time when everyone was obsessed with diagnosing or...
SHOWDOWN: TAXI DRIVER vs. LEPRECHAUN
SHOWDOWN is about looking at two films under the month’s theme – one generally recognized as a great film and one which has been overwhelmingly panned – and finding the good and the bad in each, if there is any. – Nathan Zanon THE TOP LINE Taxi Driver is the story of Travis Bickle, a...
Falling Down: Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday
As Robert Duvall’s tragically insecure wife, Tuesday Weld manages to take a character that could easily be played as an unsympathetic, two-dimensional shrew and instead delivers a sensitive mini-portrait of a middle-aged woman in the midsts of an identity crisis. It was a pleasant surprise to see Tuesday turn up in Falling Down, as it...