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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...

A big highlight of having HBOMax has been diving into its wealth of foreign films, in particular those from Japan. I've enjoyed seeing...

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...

I've stated before there's nothing, in pop culture or elsewhere, that's had a bigger impact on my sense of humor than the Simpsons. I...

It's been on my mind for a while to do a top 10 movies list. The problem, more than anything else, was I wasn't fully sure what I wanted...

I didn't like Amazon's The Rings of Power. Week to week, from a higher level, it felt like a chore to watch. The details of the plot...

Our eldest loves music and is either singing to himself or wants something played for him all the time. The last year+ most of his...

Over the last few weeks I've been watching HBO's Watchmen (2019), one of the shows I was most curious about when signing up for Max. I...

I recently signed up for HBOMax, getting the discounted deal for a whole year paid up front. Yes, this was in part due to the release of...

Sometimes you'll find a movie that's overall fine, whatever, but then has a particularly good scene that, as a result, really improves...