Back in college my friends and I went to check out this mysterious new monster movie called Cloverfield, anxious to see if it would usher in a new age of giant monster flicks. Unfortunately that movie did absolutely nothing for me. I have yet to see a found-footage […]
Of all the genres of movies there are, I feel like horror is the one that’s my biggest blindspot. My folks weren’t big into the genre, I never had friends who were into horror, and my wife is a huge wuss when it comes to horror, so […]
There are certain subjects in film that I have kind of complicated feelings towards. Some subjects, while enormously important and deserving of analysis through fiction and non-fiction, tend to be used very manipulatively. Things like slavery, 9/11, or the Holocaust are immensely monumental subjects that really should be […]
Oh Deadpool. I have very conflicting feelings about this character. He’s extremely over-hyped, and has generally been embraced by a demographic of aggressively eccentric people who think being random is the funniest thing in the world, and that I generally find intolerable. He’s basically become a joke, and […]
Folks, we’ve been spoiled lately. Not only do we get a new amazing Tarantino movie, we get a new Coen Brothers movie. I’ve talked a little about the work or Joel and Ethan Coen on this site, but certainly not enough. They’re wonderful. The Coen Brothers are […]
This year I’m trying to participate in a project that was created by comedian Doug Benson, that gets called the Doug Loves Movie Challenge. The point of it is to watch a new movie every day of the year. So for 2016 I’m trying to watch 366 movies […]
The Western genre of movies is probably one of my biggest blind-spots when it comes to cinema history. Probably only really beat by musicals. I never really had anyone show them to me at a young age, like the stereotype of dads or grandpa’s showing kids their favorite […]
I really love Charlie Kaufman. His work has become some of the most inventive and fascinating films I’ve ever seen in my life. Being John Malkovich and Adaption were life-changing experiences for me, Eternal Sunshine was incredibly poignant and just gets more and more relevant as I get older, Synecdoche, New York is […]
I really liked Birdman. It definitely had issues, but overall I really enjoyed that movie, and though it was one of the best of 2014. So I was looking forward to future work from Alejandro Inarritu. And I was of course excited when I heard that his next […]
It’s pretty clear from this website that I’m a big fan of superheroes. Both comics and movies, really anything with superheroes can usually get a look from me. And Marvel superheroes in particular? Gold for me. I just love that universe, and pretty much any character in […]
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