My Most Anticipated 2021 Movies
A lot can change in a year, I believe it’s safe to say. At this point last December, I was thinking about the end of a decade of movies, in […]
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My Favorite Movies of the 2010s
This past decade was an important transitional time for me. It began with me entering my final semester of college, and it ended with me finally moving out of my […]
Double Feature: Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe…and…Me?
It’s almost immaterial that one of these films is derived from a novel and the other from a memoir. An experiment: Watch Me and Orson Welles and My Week with Marilyn back-to-back […]
Double Feature: “The Kids Are Losing Their Minds”
From the beginning, rock music was pitched toward the young. The generational schisms opened early and often, with teenagers eager to assert cultural power like never before. Rock may have […]
Double Feature: Animatedreams
The hoariest of selling points for motion pictures is their resemblance to dreams. Hollywood, in particular, has gotten a great deal of mileage over the years out of the word […]
My Most Anticipated 2017 Movies
I’ll get the hang of this eventually, trust me. As I prepared another top ten list of upcoming movies, it occurred to me that I had absolutely no idea how […]
My Most Anticipated 2016 Movies
Checking in with last year’s list, I find that things turned out about as well as could be expected. Of the five movies I’ve seen to date, my least favorite […]
My Favorite Movies: Before Sunrise
I’ve long thought of this movie as a thinking man’s romance, without necessarily articulating that opinion. The category sat in opposition to the “chick flick” — a derogatory term I […]
Oscar 2015
We’re back in that somewhat frustrating pocket of time between the Academy Awards nominations announcement and the actual ceremony. Current frontrunners can easily lose steam between now and February 22. […]
My Most Anticipated 2014 Movies
Another year has gone by. I’ve done significantly better with my “most anticipated” list for this year than the previous one. As of my writing this, I’ve seen eight out […]
Geppetto's Clocks 