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 the big black void of […]
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 …
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 …