Susan Sarandon
The Ten Best Baseball Movies Ever Made
There’s a speech given by James Earl Jones as writer Terence Mann in Field of Dreams that perfectly sums up the American love affair with the game of baseball. As Mann tries to convince Kevin Costner’s character, Ray Kinsella, that a baseball field in the middle of an Iowa cornfield is a surefire money-making business venture and not the byproduct of a midlife crisis, he hits upon why we love the ...[Read More]
Movie Review: Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff is 30 and lives in his mother’s basement. He’s unemployed, smokes too much weed, and hasn’t had a girlfriend since high school (surprised?). He’s a slacker in every sense of the word, but according to Jeff he simply hasn’t found his destiny yet. I’m guessing many slackers use the same excuse to justify their laziness, but I doubt any slacker alive is as obsessed with the M. Night Shyamalan mo...[Read More]
Bela Lugosi’s Not Really Dead: A Vampire Movie Primer
Vampires are so commonplace in entertainment these days that I cannot fathom how anyone could find them mysterious, otherworldly, or especially frightening. In our narcissistic age, people romanticize vampires because the idea of staying young forever trumps any of the existential sadness of such a proposition. Furthermore, the horror aspect of the undead has been entirely co-opted and taken to ex...[Read More]