"On Gen Z, hip hop, Netflix games, Football Manager, and my film nerd son." Five things for August 23, 2023.
Tag: Movies
Five Things: July 6, 2023
"How Ya Like Me Now" Five things for July 6, 2023. That's it! That's the excerpt.
Five Things: June 22, 2023
"I’m so worn down by it all right now." Five things for June 22, 2023. That's it! That's the excerpt.
Five Things: March 2, 2023
"It's basically Pop-Up Video 3.0." Five things for March 2, 2023. That's it! That's the excerpt.
Five Things: November 17, 2022
Five things for November 17, 2022. That's it! That's the excerpt.
Five Things: March 17, 2022
Five things for March 17, 2022. That's it! That's the excerpt.
Refuting the Book of George
[This was originally published by About.com in its Poetry section, back in 1999, in response to the release of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. It was retrieved via the Wayback Machine as About.com no longer exists, and I'm republishing it here for my own archives, but also in an initial response to Boba Fett's return, about which I'm feeling a little ambivalent.]
Five Things: July 22, 2021
Five things for July 22, 2021. That's it! That's the excerpt.
My Favorite Movies of 2018
2018 was a pretty terrible year by many measures, but it was a damn good year for movies. While big budget sequels of varying quality continued to dominate the box office, there was still room in theaters for new and original stories to stand out while streaming options give them a shot at reaching the wider audiences they deserve—including me, in a couple of cases. My top 10 favorites (plus 4 honorable mentions) were unexpectedly tough to sort out, but they represent a more varied list than I would have initially guessed at the beginning of the year.
The Avengers, John Carter, and “A little old fashioned…”
Joss Whedon reached deep down and tapped into what made the comics of the 60s and 70s so much fun, inspiring a generation of creators who were subsequently side-tracked by a misunderstanding of Alan Moore's Watchmen. It's the kind of movie DC's stable of characters (other than Batman) are best-suited for and will likely never get, and in some ways, it reminded me of the unfairly maligned John Carter (of Mars).