Just A Reminder About The MMIP Riffs Audition
The deadline's September 15th, which is coming sooner than you think. So, snarky women of the world, unite! Then head over here, read the instructions, write, record, and send. Otherwise,…
The 42 Worst Movies Made Since I Was Born
From Over at the MMIP Riffs site, a full list. Here's a sample: Omen III: The Final Conflict: The first Omen movie made almost zero sense, but it had a…
42 after ’71 (Final Part)
Here's the last installment of my forty-two favorite movies since 1971. (I was born in 1971 and I'm 42 years old, see...) Here are parts one, two, and three. 32. Blazing…
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…
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…
The Things I’ve Seen (April 2014 Edition)
Here's what I viddied on a screen in April 2014. Gravity: A spectacular real-time (or close enough) story of survival. I admired Sandra Bullock's performance as a rookie astronaut struggling…
The Stories We Told After Adolf Eichmann’s Capture
Six days from now we'll have reached the 44th anniversary of the Mossad's capture of SS Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who'd been hiding in Argentina since the end of World…
I Saw The Unknown Known
Many of the early reviews of Errol Morris's The Unknown Known (which I saw just a little while ago thanks to iTunes) compared it to Morris's The Fog Of War. The comparison…