Non-Godzilla Kaiju Week
G-Man isn't the only game in town. Continue reading
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G-Man isn't the only game in town. Continue reading
The Godzilla Collection is a thing of wonder. Continue reading
One Man, One Week, Seven Movies. Was it worth it? Continue reading
Week two of the new year was dominated by espionage, intrigue, world travel, and double crosses. This is my recap of Secret Agent Week. Continue reading
In 2011, I am upping the ante and trying to watch a movie each day. The first week of 2011 was characterized by action films from Asia. Well, most of them were action films. Continue reading
My wife and I have spent the year alternating who picks a movie to watch each week. My theme: Movies from Japan. As the year draws to a close, I notice that we have touched on almost everything from contemporary comedies, animated films, samurai classics,… Continue reading
If there is one type of movie that I associate most with my dad, it's the Western. Born and raised in central Texas around the mid-century mark, my dad grew up surrounded by cowboy iconography. Growing up I heard stories from my father's youth about Gene… Continue reading
Louis Gossett Jr. was my favorite actor for a while. Not Harrison Ford, not Tom Cruise, but the guy from Iron Eagle! I was 11 years old when I saw Gossett as the gruff Air Force Colonel with a heart of gold, and he seemed the perfect role model. My dad was in… Continue reading
My sister grew up a dancer. When I went off to soccer practice, she put on her pink leotard and mom dragged her to a dance studio. I remember my sister's love of dance stopping short at the fantasy when she was younger. She loved the swans and the princesses… Continue reading
In the wake of Star Wars, the world was bound to see some cheap space opera knock-offs. When I was about four my dad took me to see Starcrash and to my brain at the time it was every bit as fun and exciting as the film it was aping. The movie had energy… Continue reading
There aren't many movies that I've ever walked out of, but Charlton Heston's The Omega Man was definitely the first. I'm honestly not even sure how this happened since the film was released four years before I was even born. Maybe living in an Army town in… Continue reading
My family's grand Thanksgiving tradition revolves around televised football almost as much as it does around turkey. In 2003 we celebrated a little late, so there was no football on TV and really not much of anything going on to fill those awkward all-grown… Continue reading