Painful to watch: The 1999 Wild, Wild West
(Another repost, from my own blog in 2019) The 1999 big-screen reboot of Wild, Wild, West should have been a blast. We have a talented crew of actors, special effects …
Category: Movies
My Life in Movies
In 2017 this meme-list-game-datamining thing was going around Facebook, in which you were supposed to list your favorite movie from each year of your life. Naturally, like all things on Facebook, it’s coming around again. Since I never did it back then, I thought I’d do it now. I quickly realized that while a Gen-Z or Millennial could bang out a list of a couple dozen films pretty quickly, for an old fart like, me, a list of films for every year of my life is a major undertaking; rather than squander all that time on a Facebook post, I thought I’d turn it into an article here, where I can expound a bit on some of the entries.
Question of the Week: What’s the best consecutive-movies run by a director?
We’re back on movies, everyone!
I’ve watched movies released since the day I was born, and I’m going to write about them!
Who doesn’t love some movies?
The spy on whom the sun never sets: James Bond and England
When Ian Fleming published the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1953, Britain was widely seen as a nation in a decline. During the war years, the UK had been …
The Bond Girl Changes: The Spy Who Loved Me
So as the combination of two puking dogs this weekend and (more pleasantly) multiple social events over the past nine days has thrown off my schedule. So it’s a recycled …