Movies, and my thoughts on them.
So, I watched the usual random assortment of movies over my Christmas break. Looking back, I realized that 8 of them naturally fell into pairs, both thematically and in that one was an old standard …
I don't like serial killers. I should be more specific I suppose, I'm sure plenty of serial killers are great people, what I mean is I don't like reading books, watching movies or otherwise looking …
Five Easy Pieces is a movie about alienation. Of course that is an awfully broad subject, and one that is perennially in fashion for artsy fartsy film directors. What distinguishes Five Easy Pieces from the …
This series of "my favorite movies in the whole world" is going to get increasingly silly as no one can really say what their 34th favorite movie of all time is, but since we're only …
So there it is, Saturday night, and I'm sitting at home with a Breckenridge double IPA watching a movie (instead of "clubbin" like usual). John Wayne and Dean Martin have just seen the man who …
I pretty much loath the idea of being forced to sit through a bad movie. I know a lot of people think it is great fun to have bad movie nights and laugh at the …
I should point out (in reference to the picture for this post) that there is not typically a lot of nudity/sex (there is some, just not a lot) in Rohmer films. So, while that image might not sum up …
After finally watching Robert Altman's Thieves like Us the other day, I had a bit of a revelation: I'm just not that into "crime spree" movies. It was a very confusing moment for me; a …
Like some kind of desert island male wish-fulfillment fantasy, there seem to have been a lot of golden age Hollywood films about a guy who "reluctantly" heads out on the road with some incredibly hot …
Another one bites the dust. One day after Bergman's death, elite European director, Michelangelo Antonioni, has died as well. I'm not a superstitious man, but it seems beyond a coincidence that after my European Film …