It can be tricky to figure out exactly what criteria to use when trying to pin down one's "favorite movie of all time ever!" Is it the film that you find the most intellectually and …
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My Favorite Movies
In-depth reviews of my favorite movies of all time.
My Favorite Movies 64 – Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
April 13, 2015
Some movies, when viewed at an impressionable age, can live on in our memories as possessing qualities far beyond their actual worth. Ball of Fire, I'm happy to report, is not one of those movies. …
I've always been a little on the fence about experimental film. I mean, I get it, or at least I think I do, but, at the end of the day, I really just kind of …
My Favorite Movies 62: Bladerunner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
February 10, 2015
I talk about cyberpunk a lot on this blog. It is, in fact, one of my favorite things--a thing about which I have thoughts. Next to the perpetually cloudy winter of Middle-earth, the perpetually orange-tinted …
My Favorite Movies 61: Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
January 13, 2015
All the classic Westerns strike a different chord with me. My Darling Clementine is pure poetry, Stagecoach is like witnessing the birth of something new into the world, Rio Bravo is like a laid back summer memory, and …
Quotable movies can be pretty tough to objectively review. One one hand, a quotable script is doing something 99% of movies don't do, namely: "sticking in your mind for more than an hour after you …
My Favorite Movies 59: Born Yesterday (George Cukor, 1950)
November 10, 2014
George Cukor was always known as a "woman's" director. I was never quite sure whether he was called that just because he directed The Women, because he chose screenplays that attempted to address issues of …
My Favorite Movies 58: Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
October 13, 2014
Comedy is always best when played straight. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not, by any means, casting aspersions Caddyshack's way, I'm just saying that a deadpan delivery can pay more dividends than loudly …
My Favorite Movies 57: It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
September 8, 2014
People watch romantic comedies for one main reason: to experience the vicarious thrill of seeing a Hollywood fantasy version of love that can never (or, perhaps, rarely) be found in real life. In a romantic comedy, …
My Favorite Movies 56: Gunga Din (George Stevens, 1939)
August 11, 2014
Exotic locales, daring displays of machismo, and high adventure--in addition to being the basic ingredients for a Bond movie, these are also some of my favorite things to watch in non-Bond movies as well. Unfortunately, most …