I’ll Stop The World (& Melt With You)

Related: “The Snow” (2013) (Good Pictures/Bad Camera is a regular feature on IFB.)

Steve Jobs on The Real-Life Application of Video Games (1990)

“I remember the video game phenomenon, probably all of you do too. The most interesting thing about the video game phenomenon to me was that within a few years after its beginning, kids and non-kids were putting two-and-a-half billion dollars … Read More

IFB’s Top 10 Movies of 2013

10. Out of The Furnace There’s the good guy with a gun and the bad guy with a gun. Only justice is blind and the world is ambivalent. 9. Gravity The most brilliantly executed movie about space since Stanley Kubrick’s … Read More

11 Reasons Why Oliver Stone’s ‘Wall Street’ Is More Entertaining Than Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’

Gordon Gekko is an incredibly likable egomaniac. Jordan Belfort is just an egomaniac. Wall Street is a fictional story that feels vital and real. The Wolf of Wall Street is a factual story that feels passe and hyperbolic. With a running … Read More

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Hilton Als on Memory, Misremembered (2013)

“The wall surrounding memory misremembered is clean and wide and high, similar in effect to the wall one finds in certain airports in other countries, clean and wide and high like that, banking in or letting go those who want … Read More

IFB’s Top 10 Posts of 2013

IFB Presents: 7 Classic Springsteen Stories That Are Well Worth Mass Retelling 19 Reasons Why 6 Souls Is The Absolute Worst Movie Julianne Moore Has Ever Agreed To Be a Part Of Moving On: The Year of Losing Dangerously IFB … Read More

Good Pictures/Bad Camera: The Very Best of 2013

(All 2013 images taken with a Canon PowerShot A1300 digital camera.) (Good Pictures/Bad Camera is a regular feature on IFB.)

Moving On: The Year of Losing Dangerously

Today I am two years sober. I am also one year out of a job, nine months without benefits, three months off probation, and two weeks from the cut-off of my unemployment. Given the circumstances, it might be easy to … Read MoreRead More

Which ‘American Hustle’ Cast Members Should – And Will – Be Nominated For An Academy Award?

David O. Russell’s American Hustle is an incredibly likable film that moves so quickly one seldom notices the lapses. By lapses I mean the fact Russell’s film is so loosely based on historical record it actually borders on absurd. How … Read MoreRead More