If Hollywood filmmaking is spellcasting, A Star Is Born seduced me absolutely. Continue reading
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Lady Gaga: Magnificently Ugly
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, The Hangover on December 13, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
Why Game of Thrones Has Come to Fascinate Us
Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags CCTV, Coppola, Denis Rader, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Irreversible, Jamie Lannister, Joffrey Lannister, John Hobbes, Leviathan, Lord of the Flies, Marquis of Queensbury, Mountain, Navy SEAL, Oberyn Martell, Piggy, Polanski, Ralph, Robert Towne, Salo, Target Focus Training, Tim Larkin, Tyrion Lannister, Verys, Viper, William Golding on November 4, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Lord of the Flies is one of the world’s best-loved allegories of civilization and the way it has played out through violence. Continue reading
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9 Minutes of Sheer, Unadulterated Awesome
Posted in Film on July 23, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/breaking-bad-9-minutes_n_3625106.html
Breaking Bad returns early August.
Gird thy loins.
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Drag-Racing in the Desert of the Real
Posted in Film, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading with tags Baudrillard, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cambodia, concentration camp, Dawn of the Dead, Dexter, George A Romero, Germaine Greer, Irreversible, Killer Joe, Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Wolf, Raders of the Lost Ark, Salo, Sam Peckinpah, Sergei Eisenstein, Straw Dogs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The American Nightmare, The Exorcist, The Wild Bunch, Tobe Hooper, Tom Savini, Walking Dead, Wes Craven, Wliiam Freidkin on March 17, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
I had an argument with some friends of mine recently about Dexter. Personally, I think that is a show for which the script is a poorly-written pretext for the violence. Continue reading
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Why the Left is Being Left Behind
Posted in Film, Observation with tags A Tale of Two Cities, Argo, Ben Affleck, Canada, Charles Dickens, French Revolution, George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck, Iran, Michael Collins, Mohammed Mossadegh, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Syriana, Trojan Horse on December 7, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Amazing Porn
Posted in Film, Jokes, Pornography on December 6, 2012 by Jarrod Boylehttp://video.xnxx.com/video2980836/amber_deluca
This is the most stone-cold bizarre – and remarkable – porn I have seen. I’m not sure what it is that I like best about it; perhaps it is the scenario, the performances, the amazing stunts or the soundtrack.
It has, however, alerted me to the fact that I must be a very boring, mundane person in the boudoir.
WARNING: This is pornography. Do not watch if you are under eighteen, offended by graphic representations of sex, yadda yadda.
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Magic Mike
Posted in Film on July 29, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
This is exactly the kind of film I want to see when I go to the movies. Continue reading
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'I Am The Joker'
Posted in Film, Observation with tags Batman, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan, Ground Zero, Heath Ledger, James Holmes, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Joker on July 26, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
The Dark Knight Rises is an above average-action film, and certainly enjoyable. The first thing that came to my lips was, ‘It’s not as good as the last one’, but the truth is, The Dark Knight was something entirely different from the other films in the trilogy. Continue reading
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John Pilger vs the American Psycho
Posted in Film, Observation with tags Baudrillard, Bunuel, Chuck Liddell, Colombiana, colonel kurtz, Dali, Game of Thrones, George Miller, John Pilger, La Femme Nikita, Lethal Weapon, Luc Besson, Mel Gibson, Melbourne International Film Festival, psychopath, Rampage Jackson, Ransom, Sam Peckinpah, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, Straw Dogs, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, The Hurt Locker, The New Statesman, The Patriot, The Wild Bunch, Tolstoy, UFC, violence on screen, Violent films, W.B. Yeats on July 15, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
John Pilger, journalist and documentarian, criticized the film [The Hurt Locker] in The New Statesman, writing that “it offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else’s country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion.” He compared the praise given to The Hurt Locker to the accolades given to 1978’s The Deer Hunter.[42] Continue reading
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Ernest Borgnine RIP
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Ernest Borgnine, Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, William Holden on July 9, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Ernest Borgnine, who co-starred alongside William Holden in Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, has died of kidney failure, aged 95.
Theme Park at its Darkest 