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Talking Smack About the Oscars

March 28, 2022June 16, 2022 Neal Pollack 1 Comment Chris Rock, Gregg Turkington, On Cinema at the Cinema, The Oscars, Tim Heidecker, West Side Story, Will Smith

Where were you when Will Smith hit Chris Rock?

Football

Watch the Football Film

February 11, 2022February 14, 2022 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments Against All Odds, Alex Karras, American Underdog, Billy Bob Thornton, Black Sunday, Burt Reynolds, Charlton Heston, Concussion, Denzel Washington, Friday Night Lights, Horse Feathers, James Woods, Jane Greer, Jeff Bridges, Jill Clayburgh, North Dallas Forty, Rachel Ward, Remember the Titans, Richard Widmark, Rudy, Semi-Tough, Taylor Hackford, The Marx Brothers, Two Minute Warning, Will Smith

In preparation for the Super Bowl, here’s a selected list of gridiron cinema

King Richard

Honor Thy Tennis Father

November 22, 2021March 30, 2022 Neal Pollack 0 Comments King Richard, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Will Smith

‘King Richard,’ a hagiography of Venus and Serena Williams’s dad

Sonnenfeld

Directors Memoir NON-FICTION

Barry Sonnenfeld: the Most Neurotic Man in Hollywood

August 3, 2020August 5, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Barry Sonnenfeld, Blood Simple, Coen Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, Will Smith

Memoir doesn’t tell all, but reveals a lot

Rear Window

Twenty-five Movies About Being Crammed into a Tight Space

April 17, 2020April 26, 2020 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments 127 Hours, Alien, Alive, Amy Adams, Buried, Castaway, Colin Farrell, Dwight Yoakam, Forest Whitaker, Gerald's Game, Grace Kelly, Grey Gardens, Home Alone, I Am Legend, James Caan, James Franco, Jared Leto, Jimmy Stewart, Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, Kristen Stewart, Leslie Nielsen, Lifeboat, Lord of the Flies, Matt Damon, Misery, Moon, Nicole Kidman, Open Water, Panic Room, Phone Booth, Rear Window, Ryan Reynolds, Sam Rockwell, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen King, The Martian, The Mist, The Others, The Poseidon Adventure, The Road, The Shining, The Stanford Prison Experiment, The Woman In The Window, Tom Hanks, Viggo Mortensen, Will Smith

Legends of shut-in-ema

Black Oscar Snubs–The Egregious History

January 20, 2020 Kyra Jones 1 Comment #OscarsSoWhite, A Raisin In The Sun, Academy Awards, Angela Bassett, Ava DuVernay, Billy Dee Williams, David Oyelwo, Denzel Washington, Diana Ross, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monae, Lady Sings The Blues, Malcolm X, Octavia Spencer, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar, Richard Pryor, Ruby Dee, Ryan Coogler, Samuel L. Jackson, Selma, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee, Taraji P. Henson, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Smith

#OscarsSoWhite Through the Decades

Bad Middle-Aged-Men For Life

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 Stephen Garrett 1 Comment Bad Boys, Bad Boys For Life, Joe Pantoliano, Kate del Castillo, Martin Lawrence, Michael Bay, Will Smith

The ‘Bad Boys’ are Back, and Are Kind Of Old

Attack of the Clones

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Ang Lee, Clive Owen, Gemini Man, Will Smith

Will Smith Comes Face-to-face with the Future in the Lame Action Pic ‘Gemini Man’

Men In Blech

June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 Jason Avant 0 Comments Chris Hemsworth, Emma Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Men In Black, Men In Black International, Tessa Thompson, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Will Smith

Someone Neuralyze Us All So We Can Forget This Movie

A-Hole New World

May 25, 2019May 26, 2019 Jason Avant 0 Comments Aladdin, Guy Ritchie, Marwan Kenzari, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Robin Williams, Will Smith

The Live-Action ‘Aladdin’ Remake is Very Bad