Category: Favorite Films
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Laws of Gravity Ruined My Life
Laws of Gravity is a 1992 American crime drama film This movie ruined me. The grittiness, the realism, the chaos, the insanity, Brooklyn in the ’90’s, my first introduction to Edie Falco before she was Edie Falco, the vacant streets, the gun play and horrific presentation of violence, and who could forget the beauty of…
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Charlie Begins to Break Down in Mean Streets
Mean Streets is quite possibly one of my favorite films of all-time. If you haven’t seen it, you must. It’s an early Scorsese work that gives you a glimpse of all that is to come from Taxi Driver and The Last Temptation of Christ through Goodfellas and, hell, even Kundun. One of the most memorable…
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Advanced Zombie Praise
Team Zombie received some incredible book blurbs from some zombie-rific folks recently. From Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook, (also a forthcoming film adapted and directed by David O. Russell, starring Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, Julia Stiles, Chris Tucker, and Jennifer Lawrence): “An irreverent and twisted coming-of-age story with one of the most…
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Precious Zombie Darlings
During the many final (writing) days of Zombie, I very often found myself procrastinating, as one tends to do when faced with impossible doom, which is one way to say that I had a very unremarkable and reasonable deadline. Like many writers, bizarre Google searches, like REDACTED, and brief REDACTED YouTube videos ate up much…
J.R. ANGELELLA 