Author Archives: Yours Truly

Lets do this! The year was 1983. The director was Tony Scott, Englishman, weirdo, future director of Top Gun, and brother to Ridley Scott. The cast was Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon. The topic was VAMPIRES. In this … Continue reading →

Oh dear. Well last night, Mike picked me up in a minivan with Rebecca, Josh, and Josh’s cousin Matt who had just gotten off the Pacific Crest Trail and was understandably somewhat shell-shocked by the whole experience, and we went … Continue reading →

Because I shall not be racing to watch any more American Horror Story, in spite of how obviously awesome it is, I give you this recap of some additional episodes I have not seen, written by someone very funny, which … Continue reading →

ABC’s new rip-off of AMC’s brilliant “Mad Men” is called “Pan Am,” and focuses only on the hysterically-accurate period details that, in “Mad Men,” are but the window dressing upon narratives of astonishing depth that flay open American anxieties like … Continue reading →

I’m really on a tear with these random movies of the 80’s and 90’s that I never saw when they were real. I was always under the impression that “Domestic Disturbance” was a film starring Ray Liotta that I snuck … Continue reading →

In honor of Occupy Wall Street, and in honor of a really bad mood I was in yesterday, I went to the movie store and allowed myself to grab the first two movies that appealed to me, one of which … Continue reading →

Last night after watching a college football game and pondering why exactly I find college sports so unethical and grody, and then getting bored, and then getting interested again when the guy broke his arm horribly in slow-mo and all … Continue reading →

I saw that! I would say this movie has the best pre-opening-credits-sequence-followed-by-opening-credits that I have seen in quite some time. Ryan Gosling plays a guy with no name who just drives. He’s just really good at driving cars. He drives … Continue reading →

For our enjoyment on this rainy Tuesday morn’ (sorry, wrong link! here’s the real thing) Who is that little girl and was she born a genius?

Well I’ve been out of it again, w/r/t movies and the watching of them. I am teaching more-or-less full time (ha! Meaning: one class (how do people do it??)) and spend my off-hours frantically speaking to non-18-year-old humans, staring at … Continue reading →