Remember Pac Man, Dig Dug, Centipede, Defender, Tempest, Space Invaders, Berserk, Asteroids and the many other classic video arcade games? There is something about the simplicity of those classic games that made them just so fun to play. They completely lacked in the complexities of the modern at-home games but the arcade games were still [...]
I love it when I find a movie that I never heard of and I wind up loving it. Actually, my tastes run a little different than mainstream movie audiences so it is not unusual for me to enjoy films that most people, including myself have not heard of before or at least never dreamt [...]
Did you ever see the film called “Bothersome Man”? A man is mysteriously dropped off in a strange town. What is this place? In some ways the city in Bothersome Man is the perfect place on Earth but in other ways this town is a place no one could live a completely happy existence. I’ve [...]
Baseball films are generally filled with on the field tension and drama. Think about every time Roy Hobbs is at bat in the movie “The Natural” (Robert Redford) You root for Roy and you know every at bat could lead to his success or demise. The movie “Major League” is loaded with on-field antics as [...]
Director Kelly Reichardt and writer Jonathon Raymond have collaborated on a few movies together. I had the pleasure of watching some of their films without even knowing that they worked together on them. I’ll talk a bit about these two films. Old Joy The first film is “Old Joy” It is a story of two [...]
The 1998 film “The Thin Red Line” is a World War Two film. The Thin Red Line focuses on several soldiers and their experience fighting the Japanese army. “The Tree of Life” is about a conservative 50’s / 60’s era family raising their sons. In many ways it would seem that these two films could [...]
There is something about films set in the desolate ice and snow that people are drawn toward. Maybe it is because Jack London’s to build a fire, a short story classic, is so easy to read. I remember being a young child and reading this story in school. The story has made a big impression [...]
The movie Tiny Furniture is about a girl who returns to New York City after graduating from a college in Ohio. She moves back in with her mother and younger sister. The recent college graduate is Aura, played by Lena Dunham. One of the many things that make Tiny Furniture a unique film is that [...]
Here are the exact specifications to build “ELEANOR,” the famous Mustang car from the movie, “Gone In Sixty Seconds.” I admit, in advance, that this list may not be perfect. It is merely the best I could do to verify them. Please feel free to respond with any additions you have to add. Check out [...]