The Warped Shelf – Ben-Hur (AFI Top 100 #100)
We’ve come to conquer the American Film Institute’s Top 100 Films list, starting with the biblical-adjacent(?) epic that changed the game. Episode #120
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The Warped Shelf: Remakes
Like Hollywood, we’re going back to the well on today’s episode, and again like Hollywood, we’re drowning.
Read moreCinematic Soulmates: Naked Lunch and Barton Fink
Writing about a pair of films that examine the terror of writing on the eve of the death of one of your writing heroes is a surreal experience, but that is what I am experiencing right now. I hope this doesn’t sound crass, but this one is for Roger Ebert (1943-2013). While I didn’t always agree with him, I nearly […]
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