Author: Bartholemew Cobb
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Rocky (1976)
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Read more: Rocky (1976)Sylvester doesn’t write plot, Sylvester writes character, and it’s character that determines the ending.
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The Top 10 Hollywood Tropes: They need to go Edition
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Read more: The Top 10 Hollywood Tropes: They need to go EditionThe cheap platitudes of Hollywood have warped popular perception so completely that many who read this will be shocked that ANYONE could possibly disagree.
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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Read more: Sunset Blvd. (1950)Whom other than the broke, down-on-his-luck writer could tell the story of granduers past and golden eras faded into weed-choked shadows of their former grace.
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Hail Caesar! (2016): Christs, crammed by Coens, into a Messianic Monument of a Movie
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Read more: Hail Caesar! (2016): Christs, crammed by Coens, into a Messianic Monument of a MovieThat’s the key to Hail Caesar! one word, from the Hebrew ‘Mashiah’–’he who is anointed’, anointed for what? Nobody agrees.
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Black History Month Special: How you duuurrrn!– a black man in a dress is not the bellwether of conspiracy…unless it is.
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Read more: Black History Month Special: How you duuurrrn!– a black man in a dress is not the bellwether of conspiracy…unless it is.Publicity still from Wypipo Tryna Roto-rooter Mama’s Back-do’ on the Down-low: Madea’s Colonoscopy scheduled for release Summer ’25. Okay, so Hollywood is choked with faegelen who creepily ogle black men like they would a turquoise broach once worn by Bette Davis. Okay, so what if Hollywood is run by Jews whose reputation for a) a…
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Top 10 Romantic Movies that won’t make you want to shoot up your local Ann Taylor
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Read more: Top 10 Romantic Movies that won’t make you want to shoot up your local Ann TaylorAll movies have a love story—I don’t say that in vain, in college I had two screenwriting professors (both working, agented and credited) who hammered the point home “Every movie has a love story—remember that, Mr. Cobb.” “I understand.” “Do you? Because I’m sixty pages into your college-student-with-a-shotgun script and I haven’t detected a note…
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id Cinema: The Genre We Love
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Read more: id Cinema: The Genre We LoveId Cinema: the genre we love without all the ‘narrative structure’ or ‘causal logic’ that just gets in the way of its fans feeling superior to everybody.’ Id Cinema is my term for that treatment of narrative that uses symbol and abstraction to get to the point, which is usually the interior revelation of a…
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The Top 10 Words To Describe Midgets
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Read more: The Top 10 Words To Describe MidgetsThere was a story here recently about the word ’midget’ being officially struck from the BBCs style manual, meaning it ‘ist verboten en der extreem!’ I don’t know if they’re done it here yet, but c’mon The DEI demons worked every Halloween, solstice and Dianic Dyke Orgy to make ESG (the WEF’s Orwellian ass-fuck, of…
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Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 47
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Read more: Memorable Movie Scenes: Part 47“Don’t take this as creepy or nothing, but I’m guessing your head weighs at least ten pounds.“ Movie: Back To The Future Where would Gen-X be without this film? A teenager gets sent into the past only to endanger the fortuitous meeting of his parents and by extension, erasing him and his siblings from history.…
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The Green Knight (2021)
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Read more: The Green Knight (2021)We all heard the pipes begin to play for cinema, didn’t we? I did. Then, from nowhere and without warning, somebody made The Green Knight and gave us hope. It is a Christmas film, in the real sense, the actual high-holy-day-of-the-Christian-calendar sense (Die Hard can drop reeling from the top of Nakatomi Plaza for all…