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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...

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...

Amazon's the Rings of Power debuts this week (tonight!) after years of production and much wonderment about what it's going to include....

James Caan died about a month ago. Soon after I saw a few film people I respect on Twitter talking about Thief (1981). I'd never heard of...

Monday night was the series finale of Better Call Saul, something I covered two years ago (link here). I want to talk about how it all...

The term 'non-stop thrill ride' is overused in describing movies, whether it appears in trailers or wherever else. It's untrue in...

What do you think about when you hear King Arthur? There's the sword in the stone where Arthur's worth and lineage are proven. His grand...

This time of year, in the lead-up to Easter (aka Lent), I always seem to hear about The Prince of Egypt. I'd never seen the 1998...

I've consumed almost no Anime, meaning specifically Japanese animation. Anime has long included shows targeted at adults instead of just...

There are a lot of gangster movies and TV shows out there. Most are set here in the USA, where both real-life mobsters (like Al Capone)...