What would happen if Encyclopedia Brown peaked at 12 and grew up to be a disappointment?
The dust has come to stay. You may stay or pass on through or whatever.
Because Some Guy Cinema is a thing I made up without a ton of thought beyond a general feeling that leading men were more interesting between, say, 1973 and 1991,…
There’s a great story about Michael Caine being asked to comment on his co-starring role in the voodoo-frosted disaster of 1987’s Jaws IV: The Revenge, to which he’s said to…
Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 9/13-9/18/2021.
Have you ever wanted to watch a film starring Roy Scheider as a spy who loses his wife in a shootout, then becomes embroiled in a serial murder plot involving an ancient Jewish brothel? Well, friend, have I got the movie for you.
It’s often said that politics make for strange bedfellows, but they can make for some fairly strange movies, too.
Some highlights of my pop culture diet during the week of 8/30-9/5/2021.
With most organized crime movies, you go in knowing you’re going to be served a heightened version of reality, whether it’s a story that glamorizes the lifestyle or further darkens…
For a movie that’s largely faded from mainstream memory, Blue Collar has an awful lot going for it. It marked the directorial debut of Paul Schrader, for starters — after…
When first outlining the “rules” of Some Guy Cinema, I kind of skirted around something that I’ve since come to adopt as a core ingredient of this type of film,…
As the father of two teenagers, I’m often blessed with the opportunity to introduce them — unwillingly, mind you — to various pop culture artifacts under the guise of showing…