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 basically a creative process–and that […]
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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 …
The Merit of Genre: The Brief Lives of Black Metal and Die Brücke.
January 31, 2007
Here it is the end of January and I haven't posted anything all month. Since I try to get at least one post a month in, I decided to go ahead and cheat (instead of …
The Safari Films of John Ford and Howard Hawks
December 11, 2006
John Ford and Howard Hawks are very tempting to lump together when talking about great American directors. And indeed, their careers roughly parallel each other in length and time period, they are without question two …
My Favorite Movies 4 – McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
November 22, 2006
There are few things I think of as fondly as American Westerns, but the movies of Robert Altman sure come close. So when I heard Altman passed away at the age of 81 on November …
Rousing tales from Isley’s spirited past 1 – The BB Gun Letter
November 15, 2006
Being a rambunctious sort, my past is full of tales of derring-do and mischievous insubordination. In this series I will examine specific instances of orneriness from my past so that you, the reader, might understand …
I thought I'd take a bit of time to write about some of my favorite movie mantras. I'm talking "mantras" in the loosest sense of the word, basically just any phrase that the central character …