Tom Waits on screen

"And there's a difference between 'I do some acting' and 'I'm an actor.'" is what Tom Waits told Pitchfork back in 2006. "People don't really trust people to do two things well." Waits doesn't think of himself an actor, which is fine. Most of the roles he's been cast in he plays some variation of…Read More

My List of Shame

I stumbled across this story today, with this link, and it gave me pause. Have I ever been coy about the movies I should have seen—as a self-declared movie nerd—but haven't? Not particularly, but then, no one's asked. Ah heh heh. So, apropos of nothing save sheer transparency, I give you 25 classics or semi-classics…Read More