Articles Posted by Joey Simpson
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Movie of the Week: “Shaun of the Dead”
As we creep and slither ever closer to Halloween, the We Eat Films team has decided to take on a horror infused-theme for our Movie of the Week. Our grizzly offering to the film gods this…
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Movie of the Week: “Memento”
We welcome you to the second edition of We Eat Films’ Movie of the Week. This week we delve into the deep recesses of the psyche for our cinematic thrill-seeking. Our film this week is…
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Top 5 Presidential Films
2012 is proving to be a historic year for the Oval Office. In November, the United States will face one of the most important presidential elections of the last century. President Obama, touting the progressive…
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Movie of the Week: “Eastern Promises” – A Sinister Promise
Hello and welcome to the inaugural Movie of the Week! Our goal is simple, post movies that we love and hope you haven’t seen so you’ll eventually become film snobs like us! This week’s offering is “Eastern Promises” (David…
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Culture Your Ass: “This Is Spinal Tap”
When This Is Spinal Tap was released in 1984, rock music was in a transitional phase. Read any “best album of all time” list and you’ll see: the most “critically acclaimed” bands and releases in rock’s history…
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Culture Your Ass: “Magnolia”
The best fiction seldom sets itself out to be a grand, metaphysical investigation of the human condition and answer the big philosophical questions. For most, these observations are thinly veiled within the stories of a…
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The 50 Greatest Opening Title Sequences of All Time
As film medium has evolved, gradually more of its components have become aestheticized. In most films nowadays, opening and ending sequences can be considered parts of a film themselves, where before they were simply obligatory.…
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If Fall 2011 Movie Posters Told The Truth
Movie-going can be a tedious affair; especially when a clever marketing team is able to package a clearly terrible movie with allure and enticement to make it seem watchable. Sometimes, I want the brutal truth…
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[Culture Your Ass] “High Noon”
When High Noon was released to the United States in 1952, it was met with a divided audience reaction. Audiences couldn’t help but to divide the film on political lines, and were equally split on…
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Culture Your Ass:”Persona”
Ingmar Bergman had always considered this film, among a trifle of his vast catalogue, to be his greatest creative work, without which he would have been “washed up”. Considering he had already directed many cinematic…
