This isn't a review but I have some questions for the filmmaker since he follows me here on Letterboxd.

Blake, what kind of 3D effect do you expect viewers to experience during the fast-cut portions of your film? I ask because I did not perceive any particular effect other than eyestrain, but I'm unsure if that is due to some problems I suspect I have perceiving cinematic 3D or if you were explicitly trying to disrupt the typical three-dimensional effect.…

The following is my entry in this year's White Elephant Blogathon.

Have you ever had the misfortune of sitting down in front of the tube after a hard day's work only to discover that your uninformed choice for a comfortable evening's entertainment - possibly something recommended to you by an acquaintance who is not as much of a friend as you thought they were - is little more than a gussied-up stand-up comedy routine? Sure, the jokers who threw this…

I'd like to see the film that this resembles and does become, at times, with its stumbling attempts to come to terms with a lifetime of pain and disappointment in the wintry grey vistas of rural America. I might have even liked to see something like the film Payne did make, a lightly satirical comedy of family dysfunction and greed, as long as it weren't so dour, obvious and stiffly delivered. (Dern & Keach are the exceptions, marvelously natural within the…