When I first started this blog back in January I knew there would inevitably be a moment, perhaps lasting a week or two, where I just wouldn’t be able to write anything. Over the months I managed to watch close to a movie a day, […]
Sunday Best: Bottle Rocket
At last I can finally check off the box for the Wes Anderson film that has evaded my viewing for so long. There’s certainly no reason for why I’ve never seen it. The Criterion disc has sat on my shelf next to the other Wes […]
Sunday Best: Crash (1996)
Before I begin the review I need to ask a question of each and everyone of you and to be honest it might be a little too personal for you to share or even admit. How many of you have made it through David Cronenberg’s […]
Top Five: Favorite Val Kilmer Performances from the 90’s
I was hesitant to watch the new Val documentary on Amazon Prime. Val Kilmer was an actor that I grew up adoring, thanks to films as varied as Top Secret, Willow, Top Gun, and my personal favorite, Real Genius. Much like Robert Downey Jr., whenever […]
A Thing is Still a Thing: Understanding Love and The English Patient
When I first walked out of Hoyt’s Cinema after an evening viewing of The English Patient, the first thoughts to inhabit my admittedly overwhelmed mind were “damn, now that’s an adult movie.” Obviously I’m not referring to films that I could’ve rented from Dirty Dave’s […]
Sunday Best: Irma Vep
Irma Vep escaped me until just a few months ago and I’m not exactly sure how that happened. For starters, I absolutely adore movies that are about making movies, and if there was one film genre the late 90’s/early 2000’s had plenty of it was […]
Quick Review: Foxfire
There are times in movies where you see someone for the first time and you know immediately that person is not just going to be a successful actor, but a damn superstar. It doesn’t always click in their first film, which most of the time […]
Friday the 13th goes to Hell: How did a prolific franchise manage to make only one movie in the 90s?
I grew up going to Camp Crystal Lake. By the time HBO became available in my hometown, parts 1-5 of the Friday the 13th series had already been released, and to the eternal gratitude of my curious young mind, were often available during the late […]
Quick Review: Dead Man
In 1996, when I first watched Dead Man, I had just recently changed my college major from Aerospace Engineering to Education, with a specialization in English. Of course this film was going to bring out the nerd in me because so much of what Nobody, […]
Quick Review: Big Night
Big Night shouldn’t have worked as a film. At the time, long before the days of the Food Network and a consistent rotation of Gordon Ramsey led competition/rehabilitation reality shows, a movie about a failing restaurant didn’t exactly jump to the top of my must-watch […]