Today's post started while I was sitting around recently, just letting my mind wander. My thoughts were flitting around like a barracuda in a mangrove forest until, like a Ceti Eel, the words "I'd like to watch …
While I love romantic comedies more than your average guy (or girl for that matter), I'll be the first to admit that they are not usually cinematic masterworks--or even cinematic averageworks. In fact, most of …
Last month I talked about one of the first two movies I owned on VHS as a child. I figured it was only fitting to talk about the other movie today, the action movie to …
It's no secret that I've got a bit of a thing for Julia Stiles. Maybe I'm just being a contrarian because of all those people who call her "fish-faced box office poison," but dammit, she …
I talk about cyberpunk a lot on this blog. It is, in fact, one of my favorite things--a thing about which I have thoughts. Next to the perpetually cloudy winter of Middle-earth, the perpetually orange-tinted …
Quotable movies can be pretty tough to objectively review. One one hand, a quotable script is doing something 99% of movies don't do, namely: "sticking in your mind for more than an hour after you …
Here we are on year five of me actually watching all the shitty best picture nominations so you don’t have to. This year, though a fair amount made it into my top ten list (mostly …
I've talked about stoner comedies before, and I've talked about "one crazy night" movies before, today I'll talk about a movie that is both. Obviously, as the perfect mixture of film genres, Harold & Kumar …
One possible reason the private eye film has always been so resonant with myself might be how closely it aligns with the hero cycle that is supposedly embedded in the psyche of the human condition. …
Caddyshack is the kind of movie where a character pauses mid-conversation to let out a giant fart and then says "hey hey, did somebody step on a duck?" More specifically, Caddyshack is the kind of …