Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Ryan Gosling = Kurt Cobain?

Courtney Love wants the guy from The Notebook to play Kurt Cobain in a new movie based on Heavier Than Heaven, the Love-endorsed Cobain biography by Charles Cross. Maybe my inability to see Ryan Gosling playing anyone but Noah Calhoun has colored my initial reaction: what the hell.
After further review, I guess I could see [...]

Monday, December 10, 2007

All-time Top 10 Albums, Books, and Films

This is always tough, but I shall try. And a disclaimer: these are subject to change at any moment. Tastes are subjective and highly mutable…

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Last Days (2005)

Terrible beyond words

Released May 13, 2005
Written and directed by Gus Van Sant
Starring Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Kim Gordon

It honestly baffles me the sheer number of folks who see artistic merit in creating a film based on the concept of following someone walking around in agonizingly pointless near-silence. This is the [...]