While talking with my dad about "10 best" lists we realized that for film we were having a lot of trouble coming up with an obvious list for the 1980s. Now, every decade is full of …
Westerns, at their hearts, are stories about heroes. The hero defeats the villains and saves the honest townsfolk using, not just his wits, but also his fists and gun. While the town doctor might be a brave, …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in September. Stats Movies watched - 24 Movies that were new to me - 19 Movies about dudes falling in love with their daughters - 2 Monthly Masterpieces - Invasion of the …
So it's not something I normally talk about on such a google searcheable site--even though I seem to have no problems filling my webpage full of Lord of the Rings fanfiction and essays about Magic the Gathering. Anyway, aside from LARPing, this thing …
I've had issues with "cute" dialog in movies for a while. I almost turned off Juno after ten minutes and even the dialog from someone like Oscar Wilde can begin to annoy me. So I have some possibly …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August. Stats Movies watched - 41 Movies that were new to me - 33 New record for movies watched in a single day - 7 Monthly Masterpieces - …
While most people can describe the general details of the Polish and French campaigns in broad strokes (Germany blitzkrieged through Poland...then they did it to France), the Balkan campaign is most often thought of as simply "the blunder that …
Last time I discussed the basic problem of adaptations and the idea that "the book is always better than the movie". I came to the conclusion that each must be evaluated by different criteria and …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in July. Stats Movies watched - 31 Movies that were new to me - 26 Percent Romantic Comedies watched - 52% Monthly Masterpieces - Henry V, Shanghai Express, It Happened One …
There is a natural urge to create adaptations with film. Film, after all, is still a relatively new art and audiences have not yet lost their childlike wonder at its ability to convey alternate realities so realistically and convincingly. Who …