Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends is dedicated to highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Lets begin with the best article you’ll read this week: Karina Longworth’s interview with Charlie Sheen and Roman Coppola.
Ryan McNeil continues his blindside series with Ikiru.
How Ms. Dor Dotson caught 52 films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is beyond me. Check out her full roundup.
Netflix just produced their first major original series, House of Cards, which is now available for streaming. Here’s everything you need to know about the show – written by Allison Willmore.
Hall-of-fame basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reviews the HBO program, Girls (not, I’m not kidding).
I’m sure most of you don’t quite care about Broken City. That said, you should care about Dana Steven’s wonderful review of Broken City. She makes it look so easy.
The Superbowl consumed millions of Americans this past weekend. With that in mind, it’s not likely many of you went out to see Bullet to the Head. Allow Scott Tobias to perhaps convince you otherwise with his interview with Walter Hill on the evolution of action filmmaking.
I missed Stand Up Guys this weekend. A film I was looking forward to. Dan Mecca over at The Film Stage has it covered.
Here are some television characters we used to love, but now don’t. Hilarity brought to you by the talented Joanna Robinson.
Before I leave you all, I’d like to give a shout out to David Ehrlich. Today is his first day as Senior Editor at Film.com. He’s a strong and knowledgable writer, and a nice guy. You may follow him on twitter here.