. Hey everybody, it's that time of year again, when I pick the best books I've read over the previous twelve months. I don't rem...

. Just recently -- like last night -- I realized that it's difficult for me to write about True Grit . I watched the 1969 film, directed...

. Steven Spielberg first showed that he had a way with violence in 1975 with Jaws . The severed, sinking leg, the terrifying, almost surreal...

. [Major spoilers for Black Swan are not stated outright but can be inferred from what follows] . Darren Aronofsky seems intent on becoming...

. Even though I'm not posting as regularly as I used to, when I do I seem to only be posting rather monstorously long pieces -- from my ...

. . William Lustig and Joe Spinell's Maniac , from 1980, begins with a murder. It progresses from that murder to another, and then to...