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My next film screening at 92YTribeca is going to be another good one, an underseen classic of Japanese cinema: It’s called “Kill!”, and it’s not as violent as it sounds (though it does have a lot of sword-fighting in it). It’s a very fun movie, and I’m going to be joined after the screening by […]

I have been asked by the Writer’s Guild to join a group of far more distinguished writers than myself in live blogging the Academy Awards this Sunday evening. You can follow it on the “La Figa” blog on the FireDogLake site. So if you enjoy the sort of film commentary you get here, but would […]

My buddy Matt is the proprietor of of an excellent blog called Cockeyed Caravan, devoted to highlighting underrated or underseen films. Recently he’s asked various luminaries and/or people he knows to contribute their own list of movies. I think you can see where this is headed: you can see my list HERE. Thanks to Matt […]

You may associate Elliott’s expressive pipes with The Flop House, but did you know he was the announcer for The Daily Show “Decider” segments? Check a couple of them out here, in this collection of their greatest comic book moments.

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In the absence of a new movie minute this week (and the last several alternate weeks–something which will be addressed in the next full episode) we present a couple of notable non-Flop House projects from the busy Flop House crew. First off: Elliott has an article in Popular Mechanics! Yes, that Popular Mechanics! The popular […]

Jet-setting man of mystery, professional raconteur, and amateur gadabout Elliott Kalan is a busy man, and he’s just added another notch to his belt of cultural achievements (we tried to tell Elliott that belts are there to keep your pants up, not to measure your socio-artistic relevancy, but he was too busy tripping over his […]