Greetings, Cinematic Fanatics! Allow me the inflaming, flammable, still smoldering, apartment fire and provocative social commentary rich pleasure of satirizing the criminal media within the charred, smoking remains of a tenement in the Big Rotten Apple via another titillating Slick Flick Pick, an entertaining, slick/flick-explaining series, a desirable diversion from the main vein of Chemohawk Sessions. You are my Cinematic Fanatic; I, your worthwhile f****** cinephile. For your 15th episode, I offer a burning, bold, blazing satirical, crime, action, thriller flick that was a critically mixed bagger, but financially faired with a tad more swagger that expertly incorporates a film within its own film's film with a vast spectrum of offerings-- through eight segments of 15 minutes, this is a 2 hour film with 10 hours of provocative ideas: a detective/arson detective comradery piece, a slick portrayal of a trifecta of social motifs…the American criminal justice system, the addictive and decadent properties of the bleeding, leading media, the pros of celebrity for both professionals and cons, and a solid, reliable thriller fstars flick in its own slick pick right. The irony is not lost on me that Edward, last name Burns, plays a burn victim advocate who fights all that ignites and the ensuing collateral damage that burns! I do not know who is the tougher fstars New YAWKKK tough guy, but Eddie Flemming is as slick as Emil is sly. This is Deniro's film, on the hunt, such a thrill, but when his own blood does spill, he simply stares down his captor, spits in his face, and goes out with a bombastic bang... not a slow, lumbering pace. I offer you, regarding this satirical, crime-glorifying but also decrying action thriller, this Eddie dunking his drunkard head into a tub of ice, that chewed half-cigar serving his prop and vice, his fame lasts but 15 ticks of the big hand, but comes at a lifetime price, and of Daphne's kaleidoscope sapphire eyes, Jordy sure wants a slice; Eddie drinks from the top shelf among a top shelf cast: 15 Minutes, circa March 2001.

Recline, Cinematic Fanatics, in your favorite well-worn, stale chair, rustle up some popcorn, fresh as fstars, the antithesis to that stale a** chair, I just mentioned, zoom in and zone out as I unwind the daily grind with a slick f****** flick pick. 15 Minutes is the flick, so very slick, hence my fstars pick! When Slick Flick Pick is near, stick around, till, Falsetto Prophet's voice, you hear. Lights... camera...action... lends distraction and, with the right Slick Flick Pick, grants satisfaction. I am your worthwhile cinephile; you're my cinematic fanatics; together, we, excitement unlock and run down the real world's unimaginative fstars clock while feasting our eyes on this slick-flick-pick prize.

Enter, with me, you cinematic fanatics, into the realm of film's fantasy as we unwind the grind of reality… I offer you: Pick 15: Slick Flick Pick: Dark Crime Lit by Limelight--The Downward Spiral of Viral (15 Minutes, 2001). Today, we'll discuss-- how to let a blue-eyed distressing damsel witness shower-- without crossing the line-- how a killer breaks off the knife's tip into his quarry's spine and how, in the manual of arson investigators, the rule against holding a suspect at gunpoint, in a dilapidated warehouse… is but a mere guideline.

- Your worthwhile cinephile: Falsetto Prophet

P.S. (Procrastinated Statement) *Intro/outro song, Soulicious, courtesy of the artist, Dyalla.