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The Marx Brothers: As great as you’ve always heard.
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…
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Adventures in Cooking: 10 Lessons Learned the Hard Way in 2006.
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…
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How I learned to stop scoffing and love Captain America.
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,…
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“The Western”: An American Mythology.
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…
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Not So Awesome Movies – Highlander (Russell Mulcahy, 1986).
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…
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: a Reevaluation of Hitler’s Russian “Blunder”.
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…
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The Merit of Genre: The Brief Lives of Black Metal and Die Brücke.
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…
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The Safari Films of John Ford and Howard Hawks
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…
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My Favorite Movies 4 – McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
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…
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Rousing tales from Isley’s spirited past 1 – The BB Gun Letter
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…
