I don’t pretend to understand women, or relationships for that matter, but as a geek who is married to a wonderful woman of the non nerd variety I have learned a thing or two along the way. So this weeks blog is a quick list of things to keep an eye out for if you … Continue reading
I’ve been watching more soccer than movies for the last two weeks but I’ve still been putting together a movie list to accompany the World Cup. A friend of mine runs the best video rental store in Atlanta and I maintain a Staff Picks section on their website where I try to offer recommendations. The movies … Continue reading
I can’t separate creators from content. I’m always conscious of the fact that someone made the media I consume. I’m unable to separate that fact and settle in and watch without any preconception about the creator’s intentions or motivations. When I admire a film, TV show, or book, I regard the creator, more so than … Continue reading
And so we enter the final stretch. Truth be told I planned having this up way earlier, however I had to buy myself a copy of FREDDY vs. JASON to complete the series and found myself at the whims of the cruel mistress that is Amazon. In this blog we’re going to be looking at … Continue reading
I can’t stand the heat. I know, I know – I should get out of the kitchen. Seriously, though, I’m not a big fan of hot weather. Anything over seventy-five degrees and I’m already starting to break a sweat. And if it’s humid, you can subtract about five to ten degrees from that. Being hot … Continue reading
I would like to take you out somewhere special. Ever been to Broadway? An opera? A vaudeville performance? (Quick… do you know what vaudeville is?) I don’t normally ask much of my readers (all eight of you). But take three minutes and eleven seconds to watch this. These are the Nicholas Brothers. Beginning their careers … Continue reading
Splice is the second movie this year (after Daybreakers) that left me buzzing about what could have been. Plenty of films don’t even warrant that–they are so bad or so middling that they don’t even inspire a creative analysis of what worked and what could have worked. I’d rather see a dozen near misses than a surefire … Continue reading
David Lynch’s 1999 film The Straight Story is, to a degree, an anomaly for the director. In a repertoire that thrives on identity usurpation, women in deadly distress and an ever-present nighttime noir the endless expanse of The Straight Story’s rolling Midwestern hills, fields of golden wheat and an almost constant degree of sunlight make … Continue reading
How many movies are there in the world? How many movies have been made since the invention of cinema, way back in those last years of the nineteenth century? These questions are just about impossible to answer, so how about this one: How many movies can one person see in a lifetime? And if that … Continue reading
You might not believe that I spent 6 months of my life playing through a 40 hour game of The Glory of Heracles on the Nintendo DS. And yet I did. Just today I put to bed a game that took 6 months to complete, and I think the reason it took so long was … Continue reading