Film
Mini Movie Reviews 89 (July 2017)
Welcome back to my Mini Movie Review feature, where I write a short review of every movie I’ve seen for the first time (or have yet to review!) You can see the full list of mini movie reviews HERE And you can see my constantly updated “in progress” list of the most recent reviews HERE With the…
Read MoreMini Movie Reviews 88 (June, 2017)
Welcome back to my Mini Movie Review feature, where I write a short review of every movie I’ve seen for the first time (or have yet to review!) You can see the full list of mini movie reviews HERE And you can see my constantly updated “in progress” list of the most recent reviews HERE With that…
Read MoreMini Movie Reviews 87 (February, 2017 to May, 2017)
Welcome back to my Mini Movie Review feature, where I write a short review of every movie I’ve seen for the first time (or have yet to review!) You can see the full list of mini movie reviews HERE And you can see my constantly updated “in progress” list of the most recent reviews HERE With…
Read MoreCinema Scripture School 3: The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, 1956)
Though I have no formal religious education, I have actually learned a fair bit about Christianity over the years, both via apophatic deduction with my metal collection, and, through cinema. In this recurring series, I feature a classic biblical movie (typically of the “epic” variety), and discuss just what one can learn about “America’s religion” by…
Read MoreMini Movie Reviews 86 (February, 2016 to January, 2017)
Though my film consumption has massively decreased from the old days when I could watch 5 Woody Allen films in a single day and still have time for a few more movies, I still plan on continuing this monthly movie review feature. It might not be every month, and I’ll quit re-reviewing movies that I’ve already…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 74: Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1928)
There is a reason that Buster Keaton’s films have aged better than any of his contemporaries. I’m not saying that there is anything remotely at fault with the work of Chaplin or Lloyd–it is just that there is something uniquely modern about Keaton’s body of work. Maybe it’s the way he took such care to…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – January, 2016
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in January. Stats Movies watched – 4 Movies that were new to me – 1 Movies about Bogart – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – Casablanca January 26 Being There (1979) – Thanks to a deliciously opaque performance from Sellers, this is much more tolerable than something like Forrest Gump. However, I…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 73 – Fool’s Gold (Andy Tennant, 2008)
Today’s post started while I was sitting around recently, just letting my mind wander. My thoughts were flitting around like a barracuda in a mangrove forest until, like a Ceti Eel, the words “I’d like to watch Fool’s Gold again” wiggled their way into my head. Perhaps it was only a desire to remove the nasty…
Read MoreMonthly Movie Reviews – December, 2015
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in December. Stats Movies watched – 8 Movies that were new to me – 6 Christmas movies – 2 Monthly Masterpieces – It’s a Wonderful Life, Casablanca December 31 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012) – The Madagascar movies are kind of second stringers to the…
Read MoreMy Favorite Movies 72 – Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Before I get on to the business of explaining why Casablanca is one of my favorite movies, I do need to admit that I really don’t like the ending, or, for that matter, the major theme of the film: that sometimes sticking one’s neck out for others is the best thing a person can do.…
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