Silent films were never actually played silent--even prior to the 1900s they almost always had some manner of musical accompaniment. From a simple house pianist to a full blown orchestra for larger cities, there was …
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Movies, and my thoughts on them.
My Favorite Movies 81: The Road Warrior
May 31, 2024
This MFM feature is getting dominated more and more by genre fare, but I've always been a sucker for the delights of genre, all the way back to reading my first Tarzan book in elementary …
Kult Movie-watching Kumite
November 30, 2023
It's time for another Movie-watchin' Kumite as 8 more films battle for cinematic supremacy. Once again, I'm sticking with the "all movies must be new to me" rule (though I HAVE seen Golden Voyage …
Spaghetti Western Deep Cuts Roundup
September 30, 2023
Spaghetti Westerns are not my favorite Form of the Western cinematic experience. Which might be surprising since I usually enjoy a fair amount of cynicism in my films, but for me nothing can beat …
My Favorite Movies 80: Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
July 31, 2023
Spaghetti Westerns (Italian films from the 1960s and 70s set in the American West) are not my favorite Westerns. Ultraviolent, revisionist, grim affairs with nothing but bad towns and nihilistic worldviews, they are a far …
All-timer classic Hollywood director Howard Hawks LOVED to re-use elements from his movies. Whether it was to mine Bringing up Baby to produce the superior Man's Favorite Sport (yeah, superior, I said it!), or whether …
Werner Herzog Describes the Ending of Dirty Harry
September 30, 2022
Despite losing a bit of his underground allure over the last decade through a combination of a newly trendy fascination with his accent and working on a goddamn Star Wars tv show, acclaimed German filmmaker …
I’ve never been the biggest Sam Peckinpah fan. He’s just a little too revisionist, a little too obvious, and a little too over-reliant on slow-motion bloodbaths. While nothing will ever compare to peak pre-revisionist …
Though I have no formal religious education, I have actually learned a fair bit about Christianity over the years, both via apophatic deduction applied to my metal collection, and, through cinema. In this recurring series, I …
KOVID Movie-watching Kumite
April 30, 2022
15 years ago, after heading back home to hang with the family over Christmas, I decided to have all the random movies I watched over break BATTLE TO THE DEATH in a brutal tournament to …