My Favorite Movies: Pinocchio
He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.” –Mark 8:24 Despite its reputation as a uniquely harsh and frightening film from a studio best […]
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Double Feature: Shops Around the Corner
The romantic comedy, when done well, is the kind of effortless entertainment that feeds Hollywood’s reputation as a place where dreams come true. The genre first came into its own […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Napoleon Dynamite
The Introduction I didn’t see this movie from start to finish until March 2008, on a Netflix DVD. At the time, that felt like a major oversight. Jon Heder’s Napoleon […]
The Hundred-Year-Old Film
There’s a bromide I often turn to after seeing a film I respected but didn’t love: “I’m glad it exists.” In other words, while I couldn’t surrender myself completely to […]
Geppetto's Clocks 