Movies, and my thoughts on them.
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 21 Movies that were new to me – 14 1990's films rewatched for the first time since I saw them in …
The Warriors is one of the manliest movies ever made. A gang of sweat-soaked, half-naked men run across three burroughs of New York City, periodically stopping to roll around on the ground with men from other gangs …
Every time the end of the year comes around I always get the same questions. How many movies did you watch last year? What were the best ones? How many did you watch by decade? …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 22 Movies that were new to me – 12 Middling Bond Movies – 4 Monthly Masterpieces – It's a Wonderful Life, Destry …
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. This time, …
Even the most cursory of looks around my website will tell you that I'm a bit of a Tolkien fan. So obviously I should have no shortage of opinions on the recent Tolkien adaptations right? …
As one of the first, and most famous, "pacifist westerns," it is tempting to discuss Destry Rides Again in terms of the fascinatingly contradictory tenants of that genre. However, because I've already discussed pacifist westerns, I figured …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in November. Stats Movies watched – 16 Movies that were new to me – 5 Bond Movies – 5 Monthly Masterpieces – Palm Beach Story November 29 The Spy …
Few directors dominated the early 1940s like Preston Sturges. While not the first writer-director, Sturges was the most famous early example of a screenwriter who also directed his own films, paving the way for Orson …
While the Bond films, with their jet packs and suitcase airplanes, seem like the would already be pretty accessible to children, I recently discovered that they also lend themselves quite well to the children's picture book format. …