Sweeney Todd

Capsule review: I fuckin’ hate musicals, but I really liked this one. Reminded me of Brecht. Helena Bonham Carter is still goth hot after all these years. Johnny Depp singing in a Cockney accent is rad. Extremely bloody. Worth watching.

Chuck Heston died!

Sigh. I was never a fan of Heston’s politics — the exact opposite, actually — but dude, he was fucking Moses. I met Heston in high school. He was supporting the governor of Wyoming’s re-election campaign. i was writing about it for my high school newspaper. Dude was a total right-wing fascist. But afterwards, when […]