Author Archive

As our intrepid author heads off to Seattle for a spell, he checks in briefly about Robert Rodriguez's newest cinematic effort, Machete.
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Our intrepid author, upon forgetting his column deadline while moving to Chicago, bumps into an old friend, Jonny Quest.
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Beaten down by the nightmarish job market, our intrepid author, Tyler Re:, seeks solace in the cinema and the delightful Italian film Mid-August Lunch.
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Follow the author as he takes on LeBron James, Nike, and himself in this unadulterated hate-fest.
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It's summer. That means vacations. So carve out about 20 hours of quality viewing time to soak in these AvantGuardian-approved flicks. From the blockbuster to the obscure, auteurs and class actors get the nod in our Summer Movie Marathon.
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All the secrets and mysteries of the summer's most exciting movie contained within! Maps and clues and spoilers abound! Graphs and pie charts! Nudity!
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Fire up your barbecue and drown out Mother Nature's pleasant murmuring with this AvantGuardian summer-flavored playlist. Shut up cicadas! Shut up hoot owls! Rip the lame-ass earbuds out of your iPod and plug in some speakers, sucka, because these warm days won't last forever.
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I love cartoons. I love spy things. I also love starting columns with short declarative sentences. I enjoy mangoes. If you’ve been paying attention for past few months, you’ll remember that I’ve already covered a number of spy-types in their various cinematic and literary iterations: James Bond, Alec Leamas, Dirk Pitt, Jason Bourne, etcetera...
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We here at the avant guardian like to read books. Or Kindle files. Or graffiti scrawled on the cinderblock walls of gas station restrooms.  Oh really, that’s what you think of Obama? And thanks for giving me your girlfriend’s phone number–maybe I will give her a call. Does she happen to like French cinema?...
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First, let’s exercise our vocabulary muscle, the third most important muscle of all*. “Noisome” is a booby-trapped word. It doesn’t mean “noisy” for that’s how it ensnares the amateur wordsmiths who would deign to misuse it. Much like “crapulence” has nothing to do with actual crap. And much like crapulence**, the definition is much...
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