I have a few DVD sets corresponding to the original Universal Monsters. Each set contains all the solo movies associated with each monster while the crossovers are placed where they fit best. However, Universal made some interesting choices on what else to include. The invisibility special effect clearly held a Read more…
Well, the podcast episode for this movie went up yesterday, so I feel like I can write a review for it today. Waiting for Guffman is, of course, the 1996 mockumentary from comedic filmmaker Christopher Guest. Set in a fictional small town in Missouri, the movie shows how some of Read more…
Hey, kids! I got a new podcast episode up! Yes, my pal Jen and I talked one of her favorite movies, Waiting for Guffman. We’ve both done varying amounts of amateur theater, so even if we don’t know people precisely like the characters in the movie, we know in many Read more…
It’s my 45th birthday. So, why not make up a list of my 45 favorite movies? You know, especially since I don’t normally rank things like this. Plus, I did a much shorter list once before for Gabbing Geek. That one hasn’t changed much. That said, since I don’t generally Read more…
Is the movie 42 a sports biopic or the other kind? That’s a legitimate question. Usually with the sports biopic, the purpose of the movie is to show how the subject (or team of subjects) managed to get together to win the big game at the end of the movie, Read more…
Admittedly, I don’t know much about the life of Harriet Tubman. I know she was an escaped slave who became a very successful conductor on the Underground Railroad, she is supposed to get her face on the $20 bill at some point, and that’s about it. As such, though I Read more…
South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho doesn’t make what I would call crowdpleasing movies. His films tend to be thinly veiled political allegories taking aim at things like American imperialism and its relationship with South Korea (The Host) or class struggles in general (Snowpiercer). Bong Joon-ho’s work tends to point some Read more…
I think it is safe to assume that, even for the most devoted fans of the franchise, the Terminator series is something of a mess. After an all-time classic original movie and an impossibly better sequel, I suppose there was nowhere for the series to go but down. Despite being Read more…
Halloween was yesterday, so why not see a scary movie I haven’t seen before? I opted for Scream before it left Netflix. I hadn’t seen that before. At least not in its entirety. I’d seen the ending a couple times. Knowing the ending didn’t exactly make me want to see Read more…
While I have never been much for horror movies, I have read a lot of horror novels. Why was one something I could get into more than the other? I don’t know. Maybe it has more to do with how my mind translates scares from a page as opposed to Read more…