What a strange flight Kaplan is. I don’t quite understand the noms for Murder in the First and V for Vendetta, or even for Brazil, a movie I recall as having enough of a funny …

The randomizer giveth, the randomizer taketh away. What it giveth here in the Ku division is two presumptive favorites, Breaking the Waves and Requiem for a Dream, plus a Gary Oldman joint and some embattled …

I haven’t seen a few key entries in the Coppola division, which I suspect is making my decision easier here. Not “easy,” but easier.
Based on what I have seen, I can rule out Apocalypse Now …

This is the master list of Cinemarch Madness polls for the conference-play round. If it’s open, you can vote in it; if it’s closed, either it ended or you have to wait for the poll’s …

(I…right? The UNC game I watched last night with Dirk quadrupled what I know about college basketball, so pretend I made a hilarious joke about posting up and let’s move on.)
Thanks so much to everyone …

The Movie: The Vanishing (U.S.)
The Crush Object: Kiefer Sutherland
The Story: Barney Cousins (Jeff Bridges) rehearses an abduction using ether and a bunch of Ted Bundy-ish props, and is generally a creeper. Not coincidentally, Jeff (Kiefer) …

Greetings, friends and cinephiles, and welcome to Cinemarch Madness: the TN bracket that crowns the most heartbreaking film of all time.
The idea began years ago, at a bar that doesn’t exist anymore, with a scribbled …

Nobody else in my Twitter feed enjoyed last night’s “ripped from the Rihanna/Chris Brown headlines” episode of Law & Order: SVU either, which makes me feel a little better about the fact that nobody else in …

Alas, I can’t do a live chat after all; so sorry! Deadlines have intruded, as they tend to do.
I did finish And I Don’t Want To Live This Life, though, and I really felt for …

The flight in Flight is a triumph. I’ve known about the sequence — about most of the movie’s plot details, in fact — for months, and it still shoved me into the cockpit and locked …