Orson Welles Talks About Making “The Trial”
The footage is raw. It was apparently intended for a documentary that was never completed. Anyway, Welles tells the story of making his last feature so brilliantly and with such…
Wherein Jim Responds To the Movie Love Questionnaire
Maybe I ought to speak to my therapist about my inability to pass up answering one of these interview-like questionnaires. This one comes from Roger Ebert's website. You can read…
Doing A Pixar Exercise For Star Trek The Motion Picture
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. The movie came out when…
You’re Not Making A Sequel To That, Are You?
Word around the campfire is that Netflix, home of some excellent original shows like Orange Is the New Black* and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is planning to give us the sequel to Full House.…
My Favorite Nimoy Performances on Star Trek
I noticed in the aftermath of Leonard Nimoy's death that a few in my Twitter-orbit went out and screened "Spock's Brain" as part of their mourning process. While I'm not…
Meanwhile, Over At the MMIP Riffs Channel…
The 3 Ridiculous Things... series I've been working on at the MMIP Riffs channel is mostly about films that I give the side eye to, but this time I went…
2014: The Year In Things That Didn’t Suck
The general consensus is that 2014 sucked for many reasons. My lame list includes everything from the Congressional election results, to money woes, to the Oakland Raiders' Commitment to Excrement,…
My Favorite Yule Tide Flicks
I know that some of you among the reading several plump for the more traditional pictures like A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, or one of the iterations of A Christmas Carol,…
Wherein I Take The Piss Out of Footloose
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. Because on the day a…
The Star Wars Trailer
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwVRYEQG_I] Since the only law actually passed by Congress this year requires the entire internet to comment on the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, I'll say what I…