52 weeks of netflix: #13 life happens

  Sigh.  I had so much hope for this film, unfounded hope, but hope none the less.  Sadly this film fails on all fronts.  It can be summarized in one sentence, at one point Lauren Continue Reading →

52 weeks of netflix: #12 new york, I hate you

I hope you get the joke.  The name of the movie is New York, I Love You, which is a fucking stupid idea for a movie and an even dumber title.  What an awful movie. Continue Reading →

52 weeks of netflix #10 sherrybaby

I just wrote the title for this article and realized that I’m only on week 10 of 52.  Holy shit are you serious?  That’s probably the biggest indication of how I felt about this weeks Continue Reading →

52 weeks of Netflix #9 incendiary

FIrst of all let me acknowledge that after watching Babel four movies were recommended to me, three of them directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who also directed Babel.  Finding that the connections were far to Continue Reading →

52 weeks of Netflix #8 babel

  And now, one of our more popular columns has returned after many many months away.  Jaime Navarro has been too busy with work and taking care of a baby so I’m relieving her of Continue Reading →

psycho vs. psycho

Last week on Halloween, my daughter and I were trying to figure out what to watch.  Having run through favorites like Monster House, Coraline, and the Paranormal Activity series, we needed to find something new, Continue Reading →

last minute christmas suggestions from secretly-important

If you’re anything like me, then you probably just looked at the calendar and realized that Christmas is this Sunday.  And if you just realized that Christmas is in less then a week, you probably Continue Reading →

Passion Play: A Sermon On Sex From the Book of “Shame”

Major spoilers here, so read afterwards or read carefully. There are two kinds of sex education: porn and trauma. Not to say that’s how it has to be tomorrow, or how it inevitably must be Continue Reading →

who used it best? goodbye horses; silence of the lambs vs. married to the mob

  In our third edition of who used it best we compare the use of the song Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus written by William Garvey.  Incase the song doesn’t ring a bell, just think, Continue Reading →

chop kick / write publish

You’ve got to figure that with millions of scripts floating around Hollywood at any given moment that two movies very similar to each other in just about every way, could be released at nearly the Continue Reading →