In our third episode of “Raise the Stakes!” we discuss a film that blasts subtlety right in the face. I’m speaking, of course, about Hobo with a Shotgun. We break down the trailer for the upcoming grindhouse film, and then share our IMDB comment of the week: Next we share a new site...
Great insight into how Bill Rafferty prepares for a game. Produced while he watches a half-dozen tapes of each team he’s assigned to cover, Mr. Raftery’s one-page, double-sided reports are written in capital letters and a tiny, crowded scrawl. But his 60-odd team reports are also meticulously structured and filled with countless diagrams, notes...
Great article and discussion of both Mr. Show and women’s roles in sketch comedy. Meeting a staged accusation of sexism with a phony admission of much deeper ingrained sexism is exactly in keeping with the tone of the series. Part of the brilliance of Mr. Show was its encyclopedic hyper-awareness of seemingly everything its...