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 occasional potshot at Bergman’s “stylized” […]
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 …
The fantasy fiction community was once again rocked when more previously unreleased sections of The Lord of the Rings were discovered. This "grail" of a literary find amounted to a new lost segment cut out …
The gunfight at the OK Corral is one of the central stories in American mythology. Good and evil, law and order, such black and white concepts are set against each other with the "guys in …
Is origami art? The question is not completely fair since origami involves the act of creation after all, making its artistry hard to argue against. Still, can origami really be elevated to the level of …
This is my contribution to a zine of art, photography and writing loosely centered on the theme "person place thing". Anyone interested in getting a copy and checking out the other contributions should contact Jon …
Garth Ennis is one of my favorite comic book writers. But after reading his entire runs of Hitman, Preacher, Hellblazer, Punisher, Punisher Max, Punisher Max Presents Barracuda (max?), War Stories, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, …
There is a strange theme in the plots of the two otherwise enjoyable movies; The Awful Truth (one of my favorite movies, as I explained in my previous blog post) and McLintock! (no masterpiece but …