Day 125: Nine Shakespearean Sonnets About Immortality In Fiction

originally published May 4, 2012 In honor of reaching the 1/8th benchmark of what I’ve come to call “My Bat-Shit Crazy Project”, I felt I should contemplate a larger issue – something beyond stacking chairs and arctic wastelands. Yes, even something beyond bacon. Luckily, Ms. Wiki bestowed upon me the gift of Immortality. Well, the […]

Day 110: Mermaids – … Yeah, I Never Saw This Film

originally published April 19, 2012 Today’s entry will pay tribute to the Orion Pictures film, Mermaids. This is not because I love the movie (I don’t), or even because I have seen it (I haven’t). The ticket-tearer of fate has granted admission to this particular Wikipedia entry, and so I progress. How do I make […]

Day 106: Batman vs. The Japanese

originally published April 15, 2012 Little Tokyo, Gotham City. “Since a wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs, it has virtually become a ghost street.” Wait… What? Yes, we have entered racist Batman territory here. Well, in all fairness, Batman himself doesn’t appear to have been racist, just the narrator and the world around him. […]

Day 90: Today Will Be Our Day To Write About Independence Day

originally published March 30, 2012 In 1994 director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin were in Europe promoting Stargate, the movie that would eventually launch MacGyver back onto television screens. A reporter asked Emmerich why he directed an alien movie if he didn’t really believe in aliens. Emmerich replied that he was actually intrigued by […]

Day 75: Golden Classics Cinema – No Contest

originally published March 15, 2012 Over the past seventy-five days, I have had the great fortune to write about a number of fantastic films. I wrote a piece on Double Indemnity, another on a Spanky & Our Gang short, and yet another piece on Greenlandic cinema. Wow. Okay, I’ve written about one fantastic film. Now […]

Day 56: Double Indemnity – The Art Of Murder

originally published February 25, 2012 It was a little surreal this morning to click on ‘Random Article’ and see a familiar film pop onto the Wiki-screen, let alone one I saw only six days ago. Today’s article is brought to you in part by my film noir class, the reason I spent my afternoon at […]

Day 38: Made For TV (For Now) – Hollywood On The Small Screen

originally published February 7, 2012 Is there anybody left who remembers Attack of the Killer Tomatoes? Keep in mind, I don’t mean this one: I’m talking about this one: The original Killer Tomatoes remains one of the finest B-movies in that smelliest of cinema vaults – really it’s a B-movie parody of the B-movie genre. […]

Day 28: Hi’-Neighbor – An “Our Gang” Cinema Classic

originally published January 28, 2012 For seventeen minutes and thirty-nine seconds in the spring of 1934, eyes remained glued to the wild antics of Spanky & Our Gang as they traipsed through the riveting drama of Hi’-Neighbor!. I’m not entirely clear on the spelling here – why an apostrophe? Why a hyphen? It’s like they […]

Day 3: Greenlandic Cinema: Yes, There Is Such A Thing

originally published January 3, 2012 Like most people, I have always thought of Greenland as a desolate snowscape, abandoned except for the few wayward Vikings who still call it home. I did not expect to be learning about its vibrant film industry. Today I came across Nuummioq, the first feature film produced entirely in Greenland. […]