
In 1999, the film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club became an obsession for aimless twenty- and thirty-something males, who closely identified with its examination of the alienation felt by the so-called “middle children of history”. The film continues to resonate with disenchanted corporate drones and Ikea shoppers everywhere who work jobs they don’t want […]
Categories: art/books/film, reviews | Tags: Brad William Henke, choke, chuck palahniuk, Fight Club, Iron Man, Kelly Macdonald, No Country For Old Men, sam rockwell, Sports Night, The West Wing
Leave a comment »

Ethan and Joel Coen (not to be confused with Etan Cohen, cowriter of Tropic Thunder, and Joe Colen, my porn name) put the audience in a privileged position with Burn After Reading. So much so, in fact, we feel that we are in cahoots with the brotherly duo. This dark comedy oozes tragic irony, which the […]
Categories: art/books/film, reviews | Tags: Barton Fink, brad pitt, burn after reading, coen brothers, Frances McDormand, george clooney, John Malkovich, No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn’t There
Leave a comment »