Classic films were a product of a different time. Different fashion, different hair styles, and different attitudes towards casual misogyny. So, when attempting to critique the look of the men vying for our attention in …
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Movies, and my thoughts on them.
My Favorite Movies 83: Perceval le Gallois (1978)
January 31, 2025
Eric Rohmer could easily be my all-time favorite film director. Granted, his movies are mostly just long psuedo-intellectual conversations between hot French twenty-somethings that are filmed without affectation or adornment. But, one could learn just …
My Favorite Movies 82: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
November 30, 2024
I am pretty new to Kung Fu movies--only really diving in after a Covid cult movie watching binge last year. Since then, I've watched many more "classic" kung fu films, and have really grown …
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 …
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 …