Phlogged Book

You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack’s Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection. A new collection edited by Metaphilm publisher Read Mercer Schuchardt with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk. Paperback, 224 pages, from Benbella Books. Click here for a sneak preview . . .

Friday, June 26, 2009

Michael Bay’s Artistic Genius Strikes Again

Former advertising man Michael Bay returns with this summer’s big hit, and possibly the most artistic movie ever filmed.  Eight years ago, Metaphilm launched with a piece on Michael Bay’s artistic style in Pearl Harbor, little realizing it was an advertisement for a yet-to-be-released political thriller.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Classic Film Lines Translated to Japanese and Back

Someone with way too much time on their hands… like someone else we know.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Fight Club Fans Running Non-Fight-Club-Related Blogs

From the “You can take the boy out of Fight Club, but you can’t take the Fight Club out of the boy” department.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Why Watch “House”?  And how is The Arabian Nights like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 3?

Ira Glass discloses the mysteries of good storytelling.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

There Will Definitely Maybe Be Blood

Seriously.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Snakes On A Plane, Actually

Uh-oh.

Friday, April 03, 2009

Mark Plotinsky Reconfirms

what Metaphilm writers have said for years.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Big Wazowski

Monster’s Inc. meets The Dude. 

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

What the Wizard of Oz Can Teach Us About The Economic Crisis

We’ve alluded to and written about this before, but here is the BBC News magazine’s Rumeana Jahangir on the original economic interpretation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 vision, brought to the masses through the 1939 Judy Garland film, and brought to the world’s understanding in 1964 by high school teacher Henry Littlefield:  “The Tin Woodman represents the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is the farmer and the Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan.” - proof that high school teachers still have something to teach us.  If you want the full blown postmodern critique, check out The Hang’d Man’s (aka the WWWiz) interpretation from our most wizardly Oz interpretation. 

Friday, February 20, 2009

Is Rinko Kikuchi the Japanese Louise Brooks?

Overedited but interesting: “screen tests” with Rosario Dawson, Rinko Kikuchi, Katie Holmes and others.  My favorite piece of Kikuchi’s wisdom:  “Happiness is when the book I am reading is really good.” That’s a movie actor saying that.