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  • Day 62: Favorite Actor/Actress Crush from the 1960s

    DIANA RIGG in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diana had already made a name for herself as Emma Peel in “The Avengers” British television series by the time she was starring opposite George Lazenby. She was the only leading “Bond… Continue reading

  • Day 61: Favorite Actor/Actress Crush from the 1950s

    GRACE KELLY in Rear Window I can’t recall the first time I saw Rear Window. It was probably a Sunday Matinée on one of the local affiliates in Los Angeles. But I was transfixed to that screen for two reasons. First, because… Continue reading

  • 30 Day Movie Challenge, Part III

    A little over two years ago, a few friends and I embarked on a little known journey called The 30 Day Movie Challenge. Every day we’d post a new photo (or video) on Facebook highlighting a favorite film dedicated to… Continue reading

  • Movie Advice Monday: Fight Club

    “You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” Tyler Durden, Fight Club (1999) If nothing more, Fight Club always took me down a peg or two when I started to think… Continue reading

  • Movie Advice Monday: You've Got Mail

    “The Godfather is the I-ching. The Godfather is the sum of all wisdom. The Godfather is the answer to any question. What should I pack for my summer vacation? ‘Leave the gun, take the cannoli.’ What day of the week… Continue reading

  • Top 5 Action Sequences in Film

    Tuesdays from this day forward will be known as Top 5 Tuesdays. I may not post a Top 5 List every week, but when I do, it’ll be on Tuesday. (If you just read that last sentence out loud, and in… Continue reading

  • Movie Advice Monday: The Godfather

    “Because a man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” Don Corleone, The Godfather (1972) If there was one constant theme throughout the entire film of The Godfather, it was family. Business was family and… Continue reading

  • My Thoughts on Kevin Smith and Clerks III

    Kevin Smith posted this morning that at 4:20 AM (his pun more-than-likely intended) he started writing the third and final chapter of Clerks: THE BEGINNING OF THE END 20 years ago today, we started shooting CLERKS. 20 years later, with… Continue reading

  • Movie Advice Monday: Teen Wolf

    “There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo… Continue reading

  • The Dark Knight Trilogy

    When Batman Begins hit theaters back in 2005, I was anything but a Batman scholar. Outside of my thirteen-year-old infatuation of Burton’s 1989 Batman, I really didn’t know much more than the basics. Since then, my knowledge of “The Caped… Continue reading