Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time

Presenting 2005’s Music God Biopic of the Year: Walk the Line the story of Johnny Cash’s rise to fame and prominence. Mostly. Actually, there are really two distinct plots running through the film, and one of them works one hell of a lot better than the other. You see, the story of Cash’s rise is […]

In a vain attempt to calm down the perhaps-schizophrenic character of this blog (Movie reviews! But I like politics! But I like movies more!), I recently did a double feature of films about the First Iraq War. As it turned out, neither film had anything to say about Operation Enduring Quagmire Freedom, but at least […]

Noah Baumbach’s dark, self-lacerating The Squid and the Whale is an autobiographical story about the teenaged son of two novelists, who starts out as the clone of his intellectually tyrannical father, and slowly comes to realize that maybe it’s not great to be the kind of person who mocks people for liking A Tale of […]