42 after ’71 (Part 3)
As those who've read the previous two parts of this post know, I'm talking about my 42 favorite films since my birth year, 1971. These aren't in any particular…
Name a Great Story With A Bad Title
I just saw one: Edge of Tomorrow. It's as fun a summer blockbuster as you'll find. The premise unites the ideas behind Groundhog Day and Aliens in a way that feels more original than…
“Something very worrying is happening in France.”
Writing Summer of Long Knives meant spending a lot of time immersed in the crimes of the Nazi regime. It would be pleasant to imagine that those crimes, and the mindset…
42 Since ’71 (Part 2)
Click here for Part 1. Last week I covered the first ten of the list of my forty-two favorite movies made since the year of my birth, 1971. Here's the…
42 Since ’71 (Part 1)
Julia Sweeney, she of Saturday Night Live and Letting Go Of God, describes a fun idea for a best movie list in her latest blog post: I went on a Mike Leigh bender…
Oh, The Things I Saw (May 2014 edition)
May was a light movie month for me, but I still saw some worthwhile stuff, in addition to revisiting an apocalyptic piece of crap I had to rescreen for my…
Dashiell Hammett’s The Glass Key
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett My rating: 5 of 5 stars Dorothy Parker once said that "there is entirely too little screaming about the work of Dashiell Hammett." True…
Stuff I’m Up To
Just a quick update on the projects I'm working on here at Snowden Labs. 1. MMIP Riffs, a movie riffing project for theinternetplayhouse. Our first movie will be one I've…
Authors Who Hate Other Authors
For the record, I hate only one other author. He knows why. http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/20140514A_AuthorInsults.html
George Carlin On Not Giving A Shit
I'm still working on this. I currently give .02% of a shit, which means I'd have to carry 5,000 shits around with me in order to give one shit. When…