The question of “who wins in a fight, astronauts or cavemen?” has plagued the great minds of the twentieth century since the very first manned spaceflight. And indeed, who hasn’t wondered what would happen should the astronauts encounter some kind […]
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 …
In the interest of staff bonding, my place of employment has started creating MYSTERY EMPLOYEE displays in the staff lounge. Each week a different person's blurred out picture appears with a series of MYSTERY quotes …
After such an inflammatory blog title, I should add that there are plenty of times it is not ok to cheat as well. Yet, in the absence of any truth with a capital "T" in …
When most people think of board games, images of never-ending Monopoly games or completely arbitrary torture sessions of Candyland with younger family members quickly come to mind. However, this is not all there is to …
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 …
Bergman is a director that seems to be rather out of favor these days. Pretentious, old fashioned, one note, everyone from Conan O'Brian to Woody Allen (though a huge Bergman fan himself) has taken the …
I don't like to stereotype, but…French movies are a little fruity. German films? Not the greatest komedies. Polish cinema? Heartwarming is not exactly the word I'm looking for. Each country's film output has certain indefinable …
There is a scene in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror where a young child looks through a book of art. The camera is close, showing only the pages of the book and the child's hand as …