Tag: David Lawler
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“Second Union, the Death of Entertainment Journalism, and the Birth of Industry-Friendly Publishing” or “Diogenes at the Castle Walls*”
“We shouldn’t all have to be some grand and mighty incarnation of Diogenes in the pop culture sewer, but with so much money changing hands as well as the promise of fame around every corner, it’s become harder and harder to find an honest person in Media.”
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Vintage Cable Box: “Rope, 1948”
“By what right did you dare decide that that boy in there was inferior and therefore could be killed??!! Did you think you were GOD, Brandon!!?? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him??!! Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave!!?? Well I don’t know…
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Extreme Cinema! “Lazarus Has Risen”
Oh my goodness! What are we doing here? Fifteen episodes in, and we’re at a season finale that brings us to William Friedkin. As brilliant a filmmaker he could be, he chose to spend an enormous amount of money (for the time) with Sorceror. Ambitious, beautifully shot, and nearly unmarketable, Sorceror would’ve ruined big budget…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Rear Window, 1954”
“Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.” Rear Window, 1954 (James Stewart), Paramount Pictures Freshman year of high school, we had a cocky, smarmy English teacher who enjoyed watching us fumble through Shakespeare, and apparently lived to correct our pronunciations of various phrases and outdated language. In the middle of the…
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Extreme Cinema! “Inquiring Minds Want To Know”
This is interesting; it’s a VHS dub, Nelson Entertainment, even has the FBI Warning (remember those?) and we have Adam Baldwin and Roy Scheider in Cohen and Tate, music by Bill Conti, and it’s an unusual score, like old time horror, like Dead Heat – that’s what it reminded me of, but first I wanted…
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“Sugar Never Tasted So Good”
90 episodes? I can’t believe it, but I guess it make sense if you do the arithmetic. The first episode I recorded (with my dear friend, Neena) came out December 5th of 2014. It was recorded the day after Thanksgiving that year. In the middle of April, 2017, we have 90 episodes. This is the…
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Extreme Cinema! A Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse
Extreme Cinema episodes are released once-per-month. This is because when we record, we usually wind up spending two to three hours discussing these movies. We have to watch the movies first, that takes about two weeks. We’re busy guys and Andrew and his wife just had a baby. After we record, I listen to the…
Misadventures in Blissville 