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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
“As far as I was concerned, still, the word or words I had picked up had to do with the fire raid; with the napalm and white phosphorus; with the people choking and scrambling in the streets and the long moaning noise that came out of them; with the buildings falling in and the guy turning a somersault over me and crashing into the building; with the shoving and the stumbling and the smoke. All...
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decorabilia (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you've ever found yourself nauseated by your own attraction to cinema's morally abhorrent mob figures like Michael Corleone or Tony Soprano, then Gomorrah --freshly out on DVD--is your emetic of choice. It starts with the setting, as Scott Tobias explains : The first and most striking impressions in Gomorrah are the locations: Bombed-out apartment slums, infested by roving bands of...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
We trust that you've all been dutifully hunched over your latest homework assignment, reading To The White Sea by Deliverance author James Dickey. But in case you've gotten distracted—there's a lot of other entertainment out there, after all—here's your reminder. We'll start discussing the book this Monday, November 30th, with Scott Tobias leading off the analysis of the book...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road finally hits screens this week, after a much-publicized release delay and a lot of media snarking about whether the adaptation would be respectful, accurate, and ultimately worthwhile. So was it? Film writers Scott Tobias and Tasha Robinson talk it out. Subscribe to A.V. Talk iTunes http://feeds.theonion.com/avtalk
