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Dune: Part 2 (2024) is in theaters now and I made sure to see it in IMAX opening weekend. It was great fun to attend an event movie with...

It's cliche right now to say that this or that movie couldn't be made today. There are cases where it's true, however, though it's...

Sometimes with movies (or whatever else) it's easy to wonder if your recollection of something was perhaps an extension of a particular...

As a kid Spider-Man my favorite superhero. I liked whatever cartoons he appeared in and, as a teen, loved the Sam Raimi live action...

We haven't watched a ton of TV the last year or so, and what was likely our favorite show may be a bit of a surprise. Jeremy Clarkson is...

For my birthday my wife gave me The Fall of Gondolin, a new-ish (2018) book credited to J.R.R. Tolkien but put together by his son...

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) is now classic horror, but seems a whole lot less known than the various slashers with too many sequels...

A month or so ago, soon after start of school year started I think, I introduced our kids to Raffi, using YouTube videos. He's now a huge...

Recently I (re)watched s1 of HBO's Rome and mostly decided against writing about it. Then, for a few days at least, the online discourse...

Much like Moana and Frozen, see those two previous posts, my kids (two this time) have become obsessed with Disney songs and have been...

10 years ago a friend suggested making a list, selecting a favorite movie from every calendar year. It's a fun idea, and one that...

A little while back I saw an article about NBC potentially getting back into NBA coverage after a 20 year hiatus. To be honest I'm not...

Ridley Scott has been a prolific movie maker the last 25 years or so, something increasingly impressive as he pumps out big movies well...

With Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny out (and bombing at the box office it looks like) it's high time I take a closer look at my...

In a classic Simpsons episode, Homer Loves Flanders (s5 e16), Homer actually befriends, for one time only, his long-hated,...

I used to not like John Wayne. For some reason, in my head, I thought he was boring, too often the hero, constantly calling people...

Between slowing down on writing in general and slowing down on how rapidly I do whiskey-related posts, I'm surprised how spread out the...

In case you couldn't tell, I've really been into ancient Greece lately. After hearing about it a couple times in other books, I decided...

Fairly recently I watched Battleship Potemkin (1925), a silent-era Soviet propaganda film that (amusingly in retrospect) was banned in...