Earlier this week I talked about the tremendously fun The Art of Self-Defense, and specifically discussed a desire to avoid some of the more soulless big budget fare that’s being put out this summer in order to seek out some weirder mid-tier that are rapidly going the way of […]
Two years ago I went to the theaters to see a movie that I really had no interest in seeing, but kept hearing incredibly solid word of mouth. It was the Shallows, and it was a claustrophobic suspense flick about Blake Lively getting injured in a secluded beach where […]
Hello everyone, and welcome to another week through my Cinematic Century. We’re getting into 1935 this week, and that means it’s time for things to get sort of spooky. But, not entirely so. We’re talking about a Universal Monster Movie today, the only one that made it […]
The career of Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson has been utterly fascinating. I enjoyed wrestling when I was a kid, but had fallen off the whole WWE thing by the time that the Rock was a going concern, so I didn’t know much at all about him from […]
Who doesn’t love a good monster movie? No one, that’s who. And there’s really no better purveyor of quality monster flicks than Universal. Well, except maybe Hammer, but forget about that, we’re talking about Universal right now. The Universal Monsters are some of the most famous and […]
Back in May, like most geeks, I was super excited about seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron. Now, I’m going to write about that movie, and its various strength and shortcomings, but I kind of want to watch it again before I do that, so I’ll probably wait until […]
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