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 still fun–plus, you gotta love […]
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My Favorite Movies 5 — The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937)
April 20, 2007
Screwball comedies were a popular film genre from the 30's and 40's. The name "screwball comedy" is a pretty apt descriptor, the situations the leads found themselves in were most often quite "screwy" "wacky" "zany" …
Just what exactly is infinity plus one?
April 5, 2007
The notion of infinity is one of those concepts that seems beyond the realm of our understanding. Endless, forever; ideas that at first seem easy to understand, disintegrate upon closer examination. As a quick glimpse …
Lord of the Rings, The Lost Chapters I: A Wind from the West
March 29, 2007
The fantasy fiction community was rocked last month when previously unreleased sections of The Lord of the Rings were discovered. This "grail" of a literary find amounted to a lost chapter, "A Wind from the …
The Marx Brothers: As great as you’ve always heard.
March 28, 2007
Like the musicals of the 30s and 40s, the Marx Brothers are a more recent acquired taste for me. Years ago I saw a movie called Brain Donors (a modern version of the Marx Brothers …
I've been cooking for a while now and I'd say I can make some decent stuff. You get to take things and turn them into new (and, in theory, more delicious) things, so it is …
How I learned to stop scoffing and love Captain America.
March 9, 2007
Having never really read comics until about two years ago, I'm pretty new to all this comic book related stuff. Prior to jumping in headfirst, I only had a vague idea of who was who …
“The Western”: An American Mythology.
March 1, 2007
At not quite 250 years old, America is a new country. As is the case with all new nations, this relative youth brings with it a lack of a unifying ideology for its inhabitants. If …
Not So Awesome Movies – Highlander (Russell Mulcahy, 1986).
February 7, 2007
I am a pretty big fan of portraying myself as a PFC (pretentious film cock for those not in the know). I throw out names like Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer as if they are all that …
Having read literally ONES of books on World War II, and perused literally TENS of Wikipedia articles on the subject, I have decided to use my vast expertise to write a bit about a common …