Whistling At the Graveyard: "I Love You to Death"Lawrence Kasden's regrettably underseen I Love You to Death, from 1990, is almost always described as a "black comedy." Yep. Okay. Got it. Err…but what the hell is a black comedy, anyway? The Merriam Webster dictionary defines it as "humor marked by the use of usually morbid…
Look Out! Foreign Film Incoming!: "Z"I must admit, I'm beginning this entry with a bit of trepidation. The film I'm writing about this week, Costa-Gavras's Z (1969), combines a large number of elements that tend to distress certain moviegoers, making it a dicey choice on my part. So before I dive into those…
Why I'm Suspicious of the Batman StoryIn the newest Batman flick, The Batman, there's a scene in which our caped crusader (played in this iteration by Robert Pattinson) and his cop buddy James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) stand in a morgue trying to find clues about what happened to a murder victim. What's interesting to…
What Cinema Is, Part IV: "Short Cuts"Let's get one thing out of the way at the start: Robert Altman's Short Cuts, from 1993, is a fantastic movie, and if you haven't seen it, or haven't seen it recently, and particularly if you are an adult in any meaningful sense of the word, you should put aside some time to watch…
