New on Video: ‘Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street’
This is classic Fuller filmmaking … and as Dominik Graf notes, there is no mistaking the director’s “brand of ecstatic underground cinema.”
Burt Reynolds
Remembering Elmore Leonard: ‘Stick’ is fine pop entertainment
Stick Written by Elmore Leonard and Joseph Stinson Directed by Burt Reynolds USA, 1985 Part of the reason that Elmore Leonard’s novels got turned into movies so often is that it was so easy to write the screenplays. Entire scenes full of Leonard’s trademark crackling dialogue would go, verbatim, into films like Get Shorty and Out of Sight. …
Essential Viewing for fans of Django Unchained’ Part 2: ‘The Mercenary’ / ‘Navajo Joe’ / ‘Legend of Nigger Charley’
December is Tarantino Month here at SOS, and in the week leading up our January month-long theme of westerns, I thought it would be best to whip up an article spotlighting some films that influenced Tarantino’s long awaited take on the western, Django Unchained. For my money, all of the films listed below are essential …
Thurs Comedy: 30 Rock 6.02, Parks and Rec 4.12, Archer 3.04, Unsupervised 1.01
30 Rock, Season 6, Episode 2, “Idiots are People Two!” Written by Robert Carlock Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller Airs Thursdays at 8pm ET on NBC Tonight on 30 Rock an attempt is made to deal with Tracy Morgan’s homophobic outburst this summer, and I’m not sure they wouldn’t have been better off leaving it alone. …