Monthly Archives: March 2012

Netflix Watch Instantly of the Day: Le Doulos (1962)

Netflix Watch Instantly of the Day: Le Doulos

Jean-Pierre Melville said of his 1962 crime flick Le Doulos (The Finger Man) that “all characters are two-faced, all characters are false”, and indeed, from the opening shots we realize that no one is to be trusted. This is certainly true in regards to the motives of its principle characters, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo and Serge Regianni as two criminals involved in various heists and double-crosses, and as we try to fit the puzzle pieces of a plot together, we begin to realize that we might be playing with two different boxes. Continue reading →

The Hunger Games (2012) – Review

The Hunger Games manages to be good entertainment and a faithful adaptation, but has little time for social commentary.

The Hunger Games appears to be an allegory about modern society. It takes place in the future dystopian nation of Panem, with an all-powerful Capitol that subjugates its 12 districts to slave labor and an annual event named the Hunger Games, where 24 district children are tossed into a death pit in order to maim and kill each other. The citizens of Panem watch the games unfold each year as entertainment, waiting for one victor to emerge from the carnage and be championed a hero. There are obvious, inherent parallels one could draw between such a setting and the present day – the glorification of violence, the wholesale auctioning of human despair for TV ratings, the exploitation of the disenfranchised by a privileged few – and yet, what is this film really trying to say? Continue reading →

Life Without Anathallo (Update)

Check out my interview with Matt Joynt – Link

When we last checked in on the post-Anathallo projects, Matt Joynt’s new group “Younger” was working on material and we had a few tracks from Danny Bracken and Erica Froman as “Doubles”. – Link

A quick update for you: Younger’s debut “New Message” is available from Positive Beat Recordings – Link

This 10 minute long song is a glitchy, electronic track that shows a new side of Joynt.  You can listen to it below.

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THE DEEP SIX 03/20/12

by Ryan Meehan

Back to business like never before and hell bent for leather.  You know the drill, let’s tear it up…

1)  All of this Flash Mob Nonsense

No! I have somewhere to be!

Like all of the other things I can’t stand in past columns, there’s no useful purpose for any of this.  There’s too much synchronized dancing in modern day life anymore.  To make sure this wasn’t something that I just forgotten to do in my daily routine, for an entire day I kept track of how much time I spent dancing.  It was zero.  Continue reading →