Standard Operating Procedure
Standard Operating Procedure
Film review by: Witney Seibold
Finally, 2008 has produced a great film.
Redbelt
Redbelt
Film review by: Witney Seibold
A first glance, it would seem that “Redbelt” was way out of character for writer/director David Mamet. Read more »
Zombie Strippers
Zombie Strippers
Film review by: Witney Seibold
“Zombie Strippers” is a bit cleverer than its title would have you believe, but not much cleverer. Read more »
88 Minutes
88 Minutes
Film review by: Witney Seibold
Watching “88 Minutes,” I had this sinking feeling that Al Pacino’s career was never going to pick up again. Read more »
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Film review by: Witney Seibold
Several times throughout “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” a romantic comedy about the emotional wasteland we must traverse following a particularly hurtful breakup, the line “cut the bullshit” is uttered. O the sweet mercy of such a line. Read more »
Pathology
Pathology
Film review by: Witney Seibold
“Pathology” resembles David Cronenberg’s “Crash” in a lot of ways: They’re both about secret cadres of otherwise intelligent people who, for reasons of obsession, fetishism, and downright honest-to-goodness sociopathy, engage in some rather horrible (and often self-destructive) crimes. But whereas Cronenberg’s film had the courage to delve deep into the minds of its characters, and present us with a dark, unadulterated view of one’s inner velocity toward moral oblivion, “Pathology” is a stupid and poorly-acted slasher flick with few redeemable qualities at all.
Lake of Fire
Lake of Fire
Film review by: Witney Seibold
13 years in the making, “Lake of Fire” is as complete a documentary one will probably ever hope to find. Not only does it meticulously follow a complicated issue like abortion in America, but miraculously includes, wholly, both sides of the argument. Read more »
Crazy Love
Crazy Love
Film review by: Witney Seibold
Oh honey, you’ll nevah believe this couple I just met.
Teeth
Teeth
Film review by: Witney Seibold
“Teeth” is a film about a teenage girl, living deep in Bible Belt Texas, and having just taken a leading position in her local teen chastity program, who learns that she has razor-sharp teeth in her vagina. Read more »
About the author.
When Witney Seibold was about 10 years old, he got in trouble for spitting on a new car. Witney wants his teachers and classmates to know that he was not a mean-spirited or unhappy child, and only did this to make his fellow classmates laugh. His classmates were, you see all merely pretending to spit on the line of new cars they were walking by, and Witney thought he could do them one better by actually doing it.
When thinking back on it, he realizes that some poor schmo working at the new car lot would have had to clean his spit off of the car. He apologizes to his classmates (who probably were more shocked than amused), his teacher (who was certainly not at all amused), and especially the unseen car lot attendant, armed with the Windex and paper towels, who was probably cursing his job as he had to lean over and touch a stranger’s saliva. I’m very sorry.
