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Hearts and Darkness - The Justin Fornal Guerilla Subterranean Interview

Background:
In Pursuit of the Baron Ambrosia Part 1
Bronx Canzo: The Continued Quest for Baron Ambrosia Part 2
Sometime in the middle of June, filmmaker/guerilla travelogue Justin Fornal sent me an email saying he was headed to Monrovia, Liberia to premiere his exploitative, underground gonzo-political epic Canzo Empyrean. Justin and I were curious acquaintances, guarded, monthly informants [...]

There Will Be Oscars – And If Not, Then Straight Incredulous Props

This was a year of resuscitation, pure and simple. Wes Anderson was a caricature with his oceanographic, Jacque Cousteau-does-Tin Tin epic The Life Aquatic, so many of his fans thinking – “alright already with the god damn detail and characters-too-plentiful-to-really- care-about” when he up and released the intimate trio portrait Darjeeling Limited. The Coen Brothers [...]

Film Review: Kurt Cobain About A Son

When MTV News personality and Rolling Stone writer Michael Azerrad began taping sessions with Kurt Cobain, he didn’t realize he’d have more than 25 hours of excess audio commentary; a reality that would absolutely fascinate throngs of people curious about the late rock legend once he departed planet Earth. Azerrad was taping the sessions for [...]

Cronenberg, Goddamn Genre Poet and Eastern Promises

Say what you will about David Cronenberg. Go ahead. Right now. Probably it’s one of two things. And it’s opinionated.
Ok. Now me.
After the (incredible, but) panned wreckage left behind from Crash (the NC-17 accident fetish flick a la 1994, not the heavy-handed LA Oscar contender from the past year), Canadian-born Cronenberg has only become more [...]

Film Review: Darjeeling Limited

Reprising his Imperialist preoccupations, dispersing the dramas of a dysfunctional, prep-school elite into a near Tin-Tin landscape, Wes Anderson pairs down his character list (at last) and revisits Bottle Rocket terrain with his return to the male triad.
Again, one of Anderson’s films seems displaced in an almost children’s book environment. Sumptuous details within the train [...]

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