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 rogue at heart who can […]
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 …
So it has been over a month since I last "rapped at ya", but my summer is finally settling down and I think I'm back to blogging more regularly. The following is just a small …