daily stream: drop out, tune in (the degree program)
2006’s Accepted leaves US Netflix soon; on Prime and Apple TV in the UK.
Emilio Estevez
daily stream: spirituality without the supernatural
2011’s The Way is on Prime in the UK; not streaming in the US, but screening in cinemas via Fathom Events for one night only tonight.
classic film virgin: The Outsiders: The Complete Novel (4K restoration)
The deep, honest emotion undercutting the performative toxic masculinity of these young men is beyond charming and vitally essential, but the melodramatic randomness of the plot ultimately lost me.
AWFJ 2019 EDA Awards winners announced
And we have winners!
The Way movie review
An updated The Canterbury Tales for the 21st century, an on-the-road movie for our existentially confused times…
counting down the best films of 2006: No. 8, ‘Bobby’
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: Emilio Estevez makes an enormous leap as a filmmaker, nay, as an artist, with this powerfully emotional tribute to the influence of Bobby Kennedy… and at the same time laments the absence today of his like in the public realm. As an American who … more…
Accepted movie review: course correction
Almost like a forgotten relic of the late 70s, early 80s, when even summer comedies came with a touch of social commentary and a bit of class consciousness — when they ate the rich instead of aspiring to be one of them.
Repo Man (review)
Kinda cheap-looking and with a quasi-indie, ‘who gives a shit if we ever make any money’ attitude that Miramax and The Blair Witch Project have all but wiped from the face of studio filmmaking, 1984’s Repo Man reminds us that once, not so long ago, weird-ass movies were not verboten in Hollywood. Deadpan humor, throwaway visual jokes, and oblique political and social satire may have doomed this way-cool flick to the neverland of sci-fi cultdom, but it has good company there, like its similarly themed contemporaries The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and the TV series Max Headroom.
