An acquaintance of mine once developed a Naked Maria Bello Theory, that goes something like this: if Maria Bello is in a movie and appears naked, topless or in a sex scene, it is a good film; if she does none of those things, it is a bad film. This wasn’t meant to be a […]

The second of two reviews. The first can be found here. In 1988, Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski and his co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz released Dekalog, a ten-episode TV miniseries explicating each of the Ten Commandments, that is acclaimed from virtually every corner as one of the essential masterpieces of world cinema. In the same year, the […]

The first of two reviews. The second can be found here. In 1988, Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski and his co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz released Dekalog, a ten-episode TV miniseries explicating each of the Ten Commandments, that is acclaimed from virtually every corner as one of the essential masterpieces of world cinema. In the same year, the […]

Halloween III: Season of the Witch didn’t set the world on fire, but it wasn’t a flop by any stretch of that word: taking in a bit less than $14.5 million, it more than earned back Universal’s $2.5 million investment. Yet for some reason, this was enough to send the studio panicking, because for all […]

Daniel Dennett once said, “There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear,” which I largely agree with.* At this moment, I think I might refine it a bit, however: there’s nothing I like less than a bad argument for a view that I hold dear, made by a […]