July 2013 – Page 2 – The Official Site of Jim Snowden

Ernest Goofiness In Its (Possibly) Highest State: Tommy Wiseau

By jim_snowden July 9, 2013Books, Movies

Yesterday, I talked about the importance of ernest goofiness in the great bad movie. Today, I read the introduction to Greg Sestero's inside account of Tommy Wiseau's anti-masterpiece, The Room. Here's…

Wilhelm Frick: The Man Who Nazified Germany

By jim_snowden July 8, 2013History1 Comment

Frick was many things to the Nazi party. As one of their earliest members of parliament he drafted legislation which would eventually become the Nuremberg Laws. Frick was also the…

What Makes A Great Bad Movie?

By jim_snowden July 8, 2013Criticism, Movies

Over on Facebook, someone responded to my posts about Birdemic: Shock and Terror, with a request for my top ten bad movies of all time. For those who were wondering and…

Wherein Someone Says Something Slightly Positive About Something I Wrote

By jim_snowden July 3, 2013Books

From yesterday's review of Dismantle the Sun. (Thanks, Indie Books R Us): Every-so-often, a book comes along that I can’t put down. I don’t want to rhapsodize about this book, because that’s…

Reinhard Heydrich: The Young Evil God of Death

By jim_snowden July 1, 2013History3 Comments

Like all the most ambitious people, Reinhard Heydrich was a collector of titles: SS Obergruppenfuehrer, Head of the SD, Head of the Prussian Gestapo, Head of Gestapo for the Reich,…