Monthly Archives: July 2011

Occasionally a television network will do something so weird, so completely inappropriate for prime-time TV, that a strange feeling enters my heart: a combination of appreciation for the tremendous guts required to do such a thing, and laughter at the … Continue reading →

I will listen to a lot of different kinds of comments about a lot of different kinds of movies, but the one that I won’t listen to, the one that is practically guaranteed to make me angry, is “nothing happens.” … Continue reading →

Originally shown January 26, 2011 When we watched the 1990 film Total Recall at Movie Klub, I had one of those weird feelings about my own aging. How is it that Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose career matured as I matured, is … Continue reading →

You might think that no one ever had a career like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but you’d be wrong. Movie history is littered with former athletes who made it big in pictures, Arnold* just happened to be in a sport which hadn’t … Continue reading →

I’ll be honest, I’m out of my element here. I don’t know how to review most of the computer-animated kids’ movies that are coming out these days. I thought I had a handle on Pixar, until it was pointed out … Continue reading →

Originally shown November 25, 2009 There are a metric ton of stories surrounding Gordon Parks’ 1971 classic Shaft, but this is the one I’ve heard most often: as MGM was spiraling into bankruptcy, someone in the studio made an interesting … Continue reading →

Did you know that “twee” has a definition in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary? The definition even uses the sample sentence “The movie was a bit too twee for my tastes,” which I find funny as I first encountered the word in … Continue reading →