Coming of age under the influence of 90's films
As I sat on the Project Graduation bus headed for Sugarloaf Mountain watching Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater’s ode to teenage aimlessness, I realized that not only did I envy the characters’ near-impossible good looks as a group, but also their ability to sit back […]
“All my life, waiting for somebody.” When Paul Westerberg wrote that line, I’m quite sure he meant he’d been waiting on a friend, lover, partner…whatever fills in that blank properly for him. When I first heard the song I was still in high school, so […]
I’ve never been a bad ass nor a criminal mastermind. For anyone who’s known me at any point in my life, that opening statement will come as no surprise. There have been times when I’ve certainly tried to play the part, especially in the fall […]
In one of the early moments of Clint Eastwood’s magnificent western Unforgiven, the protagonist William Munny, played by Eastwood, stands in front of his oldest friend asking him to do one more favor, to join him on a journey. In their earlier days he and […]
Was there a better feeling in school then when you noticed the television cart in the classroom? (For those of you not old enough, back in the day before smartboards, if a teacher wanted to show a video in the classroom it meant they had […]
I’ve always been fascinated by the thoughts of those who find themselves working in Hollywood. From scandalous tell all biographies to the making of featurettes included on DVD commentaries, I’ve been right there for it all. Doesn’t matter if it’s an acting tip or what […]
I didn’t have the greatest dad. He spent a lot of time away from home, often on the road hauling logs or deep in the woods cutting them down, but that isn’t what made him absent. When he was around, he could often be found […]
Writing this blog is a risk. Talking about movies is easy and, as anyone who knows me can attest, keeping my mouth shut can be a problem. When it comes to talking about stuff that matters, the words often barricade themselves inside. In my mid-teens, […]
We all know that 2020 was a bit of a hellish landscape, so on January 1st my fiancé and I decided to sit down with a feel-good film, and one of her personal favorites, Pretty Woman. Afterward, I had no plans on writing anything about […]
It’s difficult to talk about movies when it feels like the world is coming to an end. Damn how I wish that was hyperbole. You turn on the news and riots are breaking out in the capital and you have to wonder to yourself, do people really […]