“Take a close look at the world, keep on doing so, and in the end it will lay bare for you all its cruelty and its ugliness.” This was how French film critic Andre Bazin described the work of one […]
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Mailbag Monday 26: America Edition!
July 4, 2011
Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again! On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say? Do I really get that …
Monthly Movie Reviews – June, 2011
July 1, 2011
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June. Stats Movies watched – 16 Movies that were new to me – 15 Seasons of television shows watched - 13: Terriers, Game of Thrones, 2 …
Middle-earth Monday 18: The East Bight
June 27, 2011
Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature! Middle-earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time …
Minor Key Monday 18: Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
June 20, 2011
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] Black …
Welcome back to Mid-Month Metal Masterpiece, where I discuss a different classic Thrash, Death, Black or just plain “Heavy” metal album on the 15th of each month. Of course, I’m an old school fellow, so …
The Maltese Falcon was hardly the first private eye film (indeed, the Dashiell Hammett story it was based on had been filmed twice before the 1941 version I am discussing today). However, due to its …
Mailbag Monday 25
June 6, 2011
Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again! On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say? Do I really get that …
Monthly Movie Reviews – May, 2011
June 1, 2011
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April. Stats Movies watched – 16 Movies that were new to me – 12 Teen Comedies – 3 Monthly Masterpieces – Stagecoach, Johnny Guitar May 31 …
IO5M 4: The Top 5 American Directorial Debuts.
May 30, 2011
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. Today's post takes …