This evening, thanks to TCM and Lincoln Square Cinemas, I caught The Shining on the big screen for the first time. Though I’ve seen the picture
Last night, I attended a preview of Seattle Opera’s An American Dream, which aims to tell the story of World War II’s Japanese-American internment in opera
Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like? I wouldn’t say I dislike ST:TMP exactly.
As longtime readers of this blog know, I try to avoid reading published reviews, whether positive, negative, or indifferent. There are several reasons for this. The reason currently in
I love bad movies and can watch them all day, but only professional obligation could persuade me to read a terrible book. Accordingly, since no one’s
Over at the MMIP Riffs channel, a channel to which all goodhearted people should subscribe, I spend a few minutes picking on 1984’s camp-fest, Footloose.
3 Ridiculous Things About (Movie or Movie Series X) is going to be a regular feature of the MMIP Riffs Youtube channel. Here’s the first
From The New Republic: I’ll bet you don’t know what the Amazon “Vine Community” is. I didn’t. I was never even aware of it until
After doing 42 after ’71, I got to thinking about what #43 ought to be. (My odometer turned over a few days ago). I’m not
On occasion, I’ve tried the Pixar exercise that suggests taking a movie you disliked and reimagining it as something you would like. I love the