Bernie is a friendly little film about friendship, truth, and murder, and what’s more, it has the feel of something new: I’ve been playing around with the term “documockumentary.” The restlessly creative director, Richard Linklater, wrote the movie with Skip Hollandsworth, the journalist who wrote the article in Texas Monthly upon which this fictionalized true-life [...]
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From The Archives: DAVE CHAPPELLE’S BLOCK PARTY (2006).
Posted: September 11, 2011 in Comedy, Documentary, Movies (B), Movies (D), Music#8. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (2006) Unquestionably, the greatest comedic voice of the past decade was the voice of Dave Chappelle. No one comedian achieved anything as successful or as influential as Chappelle’s Show (2003-2006), which Dave created with writing partner Neal Brennan. No one – no one! – was better at merging genuinely transgressive [...]
From The Archives: SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004).
Posted: September 10, 2011 in Action., Badass Old Guys, Documentary, Family, Movies (S), New York, Romance, Superheroes#5. Spider-Man 2 (2004) Why fight it? This movie is a kind of biography. I don’t feel the need to talk too much in detail about my personal life, but if I were to do it, the parallels would be pretty blatant, and not just because pretty much everyone who’s ever seen me insists I’m [...]
I got to see Winnebago Man again last night. I saw it first a year ago at the Rooftop Films screening in New York, and now it’s about two weeks away from a wider release — in other words, you can finally see it for yourself. If you’ve been dutifully following my Twitter and compulsively reading [...]
