By Mark | September 3, 2014
How is it that we live in a country where an accomplished director like John Waters can’t find the money to make a Christmas film, while someone like Kirk Cameron can? I know there are more important things to be upset about, but, Jesus Christ… How did we come to a point as a society […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Rants, Religious Extremism | Also tagged Christmas, culture war, Fruitcake, John Waters, Johnny Knoxville, Kirk Cameron, Kwanzaa, Lousy Lambs, meat, movies that I want to see, Parker Posey, Saving Christmas, shoplifting, war on Christmas |
By Mark | February 5, 2011
Somewhere around this drafty old house of ours, I have an audio recording of director Russ Meyer talking with Linette and me about his career. It was probably recorded in 1994. We’d met him in Atlanta, as I recall, at a screening of his cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! If memory serves, he was […]
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While the rest of the world is focused on the Cannes film festival, I thought that maybe we could take a few minutes tonight to talk about the worst movie of the year. Judging from the trailers that I’ve seen, I think it’s going to be a toss up between… Gooby: And Tommy and the […]