Random can be good. Random can lead you to discovering new things. Random can take you out of your safety zone and into new, sometimes uncomfortable worlds. Random is a way of forcing yourself to […]
The Future Was Yesterday
My taste in fiction tends to be dark. As in, Orwell’s 1984 is one of my all-time favorite books. Never has anyone captured the tools of surveillance, tribalism, misinformation, and psychological manipulation by those with […]
Tech Suckers and My Lost Battle Against Blu-ray
I recently purchased the Criterion Blu-ray boxed set of the Showa-era Godzilla movies. I hear it’s great. I wouldn’t know. I don’t have a Blu-ray player so I can’t watch it. It was not a […]
Sympathetic Monsters
The greatest monsters aren’t bad, they’re just misunderstood. Just look at all the crap Godzilla got for wrecking a major Japanese city or two. Or King Kong for abducting a young woman. Even Frankenstein, for […]
Asian Cinema is Kicking Ass
I’ve been reading “Best Of The Decade” lists for the last month and planned on doing my own. But I’ve decided to just talk about a couple of trends that I’ve been noticing in filmmaking […]
A Very Random Christmas!
I wanted to do another holiday related Christmas post. I thought of several very specific topics but decided against doing those. Instead, I’m going totally random. Weird, heartwarming, scary, depressing, nostalgic, cute, sexy, mean, commercial, […]
A Christmas Viewing List
Unlike my Halloween Movie List which I didn’t get published until the actual day, I’ve decided to get cracking on a list of movies for the holidays a little earlier. The thing is, I need […]
