OK, howsabout a little test, shall we? The other day a well-known political pundit offered the following remarks about this year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, Twelve Years a Slave : “There’s no way that movie was not going to win!… There was no way — it didn’t matter if it’s good or bad; I haven’t seen it — […]
Category: Movies
Stuff I Like: Europe in the ’90s
I’m not a sociologist, so I don’t really know when I technically “grew up.” Since I went from age 6 to 16 in the 1980s, a case could be made that I grew up in that decade. Still, I feel like it was during my time aged 16 to 26 that I actually became who I am […]
Stuff I Like: Über Poignant Films
I don’t know about you, but I am something of a film buff. When it comes to my favorite film genre, however, unfortunately it doesn’t really have a convenient label, so I’ll have to describe it and give examples. I absolutely love those films that lean heavily on dialogue and conversation, that are character-driven, that […]
On Mindlessly Crying “Wolf!”
I recently saw the film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leocapro DiNardio (which is what I call him now, because I like it). I had been hearing that the movie was somewhat controversial because of its supposed glorification of the lifestyle enjoyed by Jordan Belfort, whom DiNardio portrays in the film. That’s right, I said […]
Hashtag, Gadget-Mastery
In case you missed it, here’s what happened: This past Friday Justine Sacco, a PR director at InterActiveCorp, was boarding an eleven-hour flight from London to Cape Town. Just as the announcement was made to power down all electronic devices she tweeted this to her 200 followers: Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just […]
An Open Letter to Hollywood
Dear Hollywood Elites, We here at Heavy for the Vintage have been watching movies and television for most of our lives and, well, let’s just say we’ve been growing increasingly unhappy about a few things, and I think it’s high time we clear the air about the disturbing trends we have been noticing. Let me […]