Tim Basaraba – Over the last few years, my theater ritual has included getting the middle seat in the back row. It started as way to limit my exposure to people coughing behind me but turned out to provide an interesting vantage point for gaining new perspective on the American theatre going experience.
Oh, January. You’re the saddest of months for film releases. The month when studios unload the projects they don’t care about with little or no marketing support. Poor January. January 2023 doesn’t need our sympathy, though, because the year’s first film is a fun, entertaining and utterly ridiculous horror flick about a child’s AI doll coming to life and killing people.
Tim Basaraba – Is Avatar: The Way of Water as groundbreaking as the first Avatar (2009), in a technical sense? Yes. But don’t forget that the equally groundbreaking Avatar, which came out more than a decade ago, led to a 3D resurgence that made many bearable films unbearable and unbearable films unwatchable.
Tim Basaraba – Moving to a new city is tough. Moving to a new country is even tougher. Add in some cabin fever and your mind is sure to play tricks on you.
Tim Basaraba – My wife and fellow film lover, Pauline, loathes the performances of Nicolas Cage. Whether he’s playing Sailor in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990), Johnny Blaze in Marvel Comics’ adapted Ghost Rider (2007) or Red Miller in recent cult classic Mandy (2018), she finds his artifice too alarming.
