So I went to the theater and saw a new movie twice this weekend, and man could they not be less alike, aside from the fact that they’re both great. Saturday I saw the amazing optimism of the Martian, and felt happy about the human race and life […]
Back when I read Andy Weir’s great novel the Martian, I thought about holding off one it until the movie came out, and do a Film Library article on it, but after reading the novel I was too excited to write about it to wait. And as I’ve already written […]
This weekend I got to spend six and a half glorious hours marathoning the Indiana Jones trilogy up on the big screen at the Alamo Drafthouse, and I guess I’m here to report that it’s still amazing. Obviously they didn’t put in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, since that movie stinks. It always […]
This weekend I got the chance to revisit a classic and amazing film, up on the big screen for my first time. Jaws! And I suppose I’m here to tell you that it’s till amazing, and you should go see it. Shocker. But it really is still an amazing […]
I’m really intrigued by Tintin. Created by Belgian cartoonist Herge in 1929, Tintin is an intrepid reporter who gets to jet set around the world, having wacky adventures with a colorful cast of allies and antagonists. He’s like Indiana Jones, but with less of a legitimate reason why […]
I love spy fiction. James Bond is my particular favorite, but I really enjoy pretty much any kind of spy story. I can read or watch a more realistic John le Carre stuff right after some zany camp-fest like In Like Flint. There’s just something so exciting about spies. They […]
I think I’ve made it abundantly clear at this point that I’m a big fan of noir cinema. But I have to admit, I do have a bit of a blind spot regarding the genre when it doesn’t involve detectives. Anything that was a crime drama from this […]
Now this is how you do a biopic. I mentioned in my article about I’m Not There that biopics often feel too much like the same movie, because they usually try to do too much. For some reason directors think that people want to see a famous persons whole […]
Sometime last year I was in a theater and saw a trailer for a new movie that I thought looked super bad. Trailers are an art, and it can be so easy to make a good movie look bad, or even a bad movie look good. And boy […]
I’m usually not very worried about spoilers on this site. The whole schtick of most of my articles is that I just ramble about the plot of something giving random thoughts and feelings along the way. I think spoilers are generally kind of a dumb concept. If you […]
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