And while we are on the subject of drinking, here’s Patton Oswalt: Southwest Airlines. No more. I’m done. That’s it. “Ladies and gentlemen, there’s a passanger with a young child who would like to be able to sit with her. As we are a very crowded flight, if there are two passengers who’d be willing […]
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From the “No Shit, Sherlock” Department (via Stuff): Researchers in the United States have confirmed what many of us already know, that alcohol makes males more amorous and less sexually inhibited. I haven’t so much as shaken hands with a woman since I stopped drinking – the only downside of what has otherwise been a […]
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”