Romantic Comedies – Stop the Hate
While watching It Happened One Night for the umpteenth time the other night I was reminded just how old the […]
serious
Stuff that doesn’t attempt to be funny.
Monthly Movie Reviews – June, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June. Stats Movies watched – 25 Movies that […]
High Sierra and the Evolution of the Doomed Gangster
The “gangster film” is a true American creation. There were of course many early foreign films with elements of “crime” in […]
Archetypical – Part IV – The Herald and the Helper
This is the fourth entry in my fairy tale series. Each entry attempts to analyze one archetypal element of myths […]
Monthly Movie Reviews – May, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in May. Stats Movies watched – 20 Movies that […]
Top Five Most Nonsensical Things About Wolverine
Wolverine really seems like a pretty simple character at first glance. I mean, he can heal really fast and has […]
How to make Burritos and Tacos from scratch.
I have to say that Mexican is probably my second favorite food of all time (right after any thai dish […]
My Favorite Movies 11 – Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979)
It is astonishing how different Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night is from Murnau’s classic silent horror film considering it is an almost […]
My Favorite Movies 10 – Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
Silent films get a bad rap. Even among film snobs there is the attitude that “yes, they are important, but […]
Monthly Movie Reviews – April, 2009
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in April. Stats Movies watched – 39 Movies that […]