We find ourselves blessed to be living in a time when every few years, we get a new John Wick movie. Yeah, most things besides that fact are pretty terrible, but hey, at least we get new entries in one of the most solid and enjoyable action franchises ever […]
So far over the course of this Cinematic Century project we’ve talked about quite a few movies that I have a deep nostalgic affection for. I genuinely love all of the movies that I’ve featured here, but some of them are movies that I’ve only recently come across, […]
After a few novels in a row that fell into the large bucket of “historical fiction,” I decided I needed to change things up a bit. And, whenever I find myself in the market for a new novel, my inclination is to go to crime. I’m just […]
After talking about Washington Black last month, I found myself still in the mood for some more historical fiction. And, as luck would have it, I had a new book waiting for me that checked that historical fiction box, and oddly enough also was about the black experience. It’s […]
For the most part, the rest of the 1970’s are going to be a pretty difficult time for making decisions for this project. It’s an incredibly stacked decade, leading to some of the toughest competitions that I’ll face throughout this entire project. Today is not one of […]
It can be pretty hard to find something to read these days. Not because there’s a dearth of quality novels being put out, but because of the opposite. We’re being inundated with great stories, not to even mention the centuries of books already out there waiting to […]
Our tour through the surprising darkness lurking under 1950’s Hollywood’s idealized surface continues this week folks. I often see this decade somewhat written off as a collection of Hollywood’s laziest and most homogenized products, which may be true, but little glimmers of brilliance can be found if […]
Surprise, surprise, we’re talking about Alfred Hitchcock again this week on Cinematic Century! Spoiler alert, but during the 50’s this list is going to be absolutely dominated by Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock, two of my favorite directors at the top of their game, churning out […]
Well folks, it’s another week of Cinematic Century and another look into one of the most highly regarded films of all time. Over the course of this project I’m going to be talking about a few movies that frequently get referred to as “greatest films of all […]
You may have noticed a bit of a theme from the last couple weeks of Cinematic Century. I’ve been talking about a lot of black and white crime stories. And you’d better get used that that, because the 1940’s really were a golden age of Film Noir, […]
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