Cineblog

Kent M. Beeson (aka KZA aka The Urban Shockah) and his long-time screenwriting partner Martin McClellan (aka Burley Grymz) have started a new blog Spitball! on which they will be writing a new screenplay. Every communication about and of the screenplay will take place on this blog. Every new idea, every bit of dialogue and [...]

An extremely entertaining book chronicling the life and death of a dozen of the most influential punk, grunge and indie rock bands to come up through the 80s and 90s. Azerrad’s writing style leaves a little to be desired on occasion (he really hits the ominous forehadowing wayyyyy too hard) but overall this is really [...]

Hey look at that Onion A.V. Club Film Poll! There’s me, Roya, KZA, and Steve C. Nice one guys, I particularly liked Kent’s take on The Devil’s Rejects. You almost make me want to see it. Too bad only one of my films hit the list. For those coming in late, check out my Top [...]

I would like to heartily recommend Nathan Rabin’s Sundance coverage over at The A.V. Club Blogs. It is immensely entertaining. A sample quote:
“After American Splendor and Sideways it’s refreshing to see Paul Giamatti finally playing a fidgety, depressed, socially awkward misfit who exudes such titanic levels of despair that the stench of his failure can [...]

Last year I went through the process of making this coffee table as a gift for the missus. Now you know why my movie watching was down so much! It was a fun and instructional (and sometimes frustrating) experience, and I wrote it up for the uber-cool website Instructables which offers a place to provide [...]

I was let down. For a movie with so many comments about how chance affects people, the main character sure seemed to be in control of his life (barring the very end, in which chance took a Wilton bounce.) I liked this better in 1989 when it was called Crimes And Misdemeanors. One major [...]

I’ve wanted to do this for a long time. Commentary on the trailers I encounter during theatrical showings. So these came before Munich (a film I have nothing particular to say about other than its decent but not mindblowing and KZA what is with that 87 I mean really.)

American Dreamz - On paper this is [...]

I suppose I should do this post too. I made a really concerted effort this year to try and listen to a lot of current release albums and new bands, which you wouldn’t know from this list since 6 of the 10 are old favorites. Feel free to view my Listology ranking of 2005 release [...]

Kent called me out to send my top 5 to The Inaugural A.V. Club Film Poll which I am about to do. However my Top 10 is listed below, and you can also view my full rankings of all the year 2005 new release films I saw.

Grizzly Man
Tropical Malady
Mysterious Skin
3-iron
The Aristocrats
Good Night And Good Luck
The [...]

This is the third version of Cineblog. I don’t know why I have to continually pretend I’m going to blog more, or that it matters, or whatever. Sometimes I get to that place where a bunch of interesting shit all happens at once and I want to get it down, then it all runs out [...]